UNITED NATIONS - As, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon started his first day on the job on Tuesday, he is being pressured by the United States, Britain, France and others for control of key departments, as were his predecessors.Sir John Holmes, BritainÂ’s former ambassador to France, is expected to head the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, formerly run by Jan Egeland, who resigned last month and returned to Norway, UN sources said.
| And good riddance to him. |
| So as to allow the sexual exploiters to remain unpunished. |
Ban’s main message to the staff was that “morale has plummeted” in recent years when the bureaucracy was the target of harsh and sometimes unfair criticism. “Not all the criticisms are justified but some of them warrant our urgent attention and we must take bold steps to dispel them,” he said.
| "What kind of steps?" "Bold steps!" |