UN corruption defys reform

Washington Times:

The United Nations has lost hundreds of millions of dollars from corrupt practices and is years away from reform, the U.S. comptroller-general told a House committee yesterday.
U.N. "reform has thus far been slow and uneven," while the institution's "funds are vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse," said Comptroller David M. Walker, testifying a day after the United Nations confirmed that its procurement office for peacekeeping operations was being investigated by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Mr. Walker presented a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study that said management and oversight of procurement for U.N. peacekeeping operations is weak, especially the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), where the ability to investigate "high-risk areas" is compromised by a lack of budgetary independence.
The United States contributes 22 percent to 25 percent of the United Nations' annual $3.8 billion budget, Mr. Walker told the House International Relations Committee, giving it "incentive to see that corruption is minimized."
Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, stressed that reform "is an ongoing process."

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It definitely is not going on enough. The UN is a corrupt organization that needs to be examined under RICO.