What stinking corruption?

Your country's contributions to the UN at work--dear oh dear:

The General Assembly is preparing to put an early end to an in-house panel that has exposed more than $600 million in tainted United Nations contracts and is currently investigating an additional $1 billion in suspect agreements.

A budget committee of the General Assembly is scheduled to vote as early as Friday on a resolution that would force the panel to close down its operations in six months.

The effort to scuttle the panel is not a budget matter so much as a political one, and it represents the continuing suspicion developing countries have about international intervention in their affairs...

I doubt UN-obsessed Prof. Michael Byers will pay any attention--see "Upperdate" here.

Mark C.

Posted by markc at December 21, 2007 06:29 PM