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| Annan announces retirement of long-time senior advisor Iqbal Riza |
| 2004-12-23 |
| In a statement released in New York, Mr. Annan said "it is with very mixed emotions that I have accepted the long-standing request" of Mr. Riza, 70, to retire on 15 January. Mr. Riza, who has been Chef de Cabinet since 1997, has worked for the UN both at Headquarters in New York and in the field since 1978, when he joined the world body after spending 19 years with Pakistan's Foreign Service. He has held senior posts in the UN's peacekeeping and political affairs departments, and has worked in the field in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Bosnia & Herzegovina. Mr. Annan said Mr. Riza "has always provided me with wise and trusted counsel" during his stint as Chef de Cabinet. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #3 In this link (Riza, Annan, France, Belgium, & Clinton) lies proof from the jackass's own mouth that the U.N. had intelligence about the Rwandan massacre days before it started happening. All of these usless bastards have blood on their hands. This is the U.N that liberals want to hand the U.S over to. Here is a sample from the link. Was this a normal kind of cable from the force commander? " It was alarming. Now it had predicted that these killings would start in a matter of days. As weeks pass, the killings, yes, were occurring. There was an atmosphere of widespread violence, but there was no dramatic increase. What was predicted in this cable did not happen for several weeks, and I think we were all caught unawares when the situation just exploded on the 6th of April" What did you tell your force commander to do about the informant that night? "to see the three ambassadors who were very closely associated with the agreement and its implementation. That was Belgium, France, and U.S. They were actually given copies of the cable. And so the parties directly concerned in Kigali, which is the U.N. mission, the president, and three ambassadors, had this information and were closely monitoring events." When the force commander wanted to go on arms raid in those circumstances, how did you react? "We have to go by the mandate that we are given by the Security Council. It's not up to the secretary-general or the Secretariat to decide whether they're going to run off in other directions." Do you think that was a mistake that cost lives? "Obviously it did. It cost lives, but I'm not sure that it was the mistake itself. ... With all due respect, those who were responsible for the loss of lives were those who had planned the killing. They are responsible for the loss of life. We did not anticipate that this was going to happen. Yes, we made a mistake. We deeply regret it. We failed there. And in the first few days, no, we did not realize this was a genocide. We thought it was the breakdown of a cease-fire." |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2004-12-23 11:08:51 PM |
| #2 Mr. Annan said Mr. Riza "has always provided me with wise and trusted counsel" during his stint as Chef de Cabinet AKA - "he knows too much". Expect a fatal accident for Mr. Riza, before he can be subpoena'd |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-23 10:18:39 PM |
| #1 Too bad it's not just "Annan announces retirement." Or better yet, "UN announces dissolution." |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-12-23 9:56:02 PM |