The office of the United Nations Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has recently been set up in the UN headquarters in Vienna.| Via the Google search linked above, the original motion was introduced by...Iraq. Thanks for nothin'. |
Speaking to KUNA, the bureau's media department director, Nasra Hasan, said Vladimir Goryayev was appointed executive director of the office, which groups more than 20 employees. She noted that the UN General Assembly approved an annual budget of 2.3 million euro for the office in 2006, adding that the office had finished placing its regulatory and legal framework for a databank on those who sustained damage from the construction of the wall and follow-up of their claims.
| [Executive director] Goryayev refused to give any details on the nature of the work carried out at the office nor the mechanism for filing complaints |
On his part, Goryayev refused to give any details on the nature of the work carried out at the office nor the mechanism for filing complaints. Questions have been raised over why a Russian was appointed as chief of the office, at a time when his country abstained from voting from the resolution at the UN General Assembly. Meanwhile, a source told KUNA that the office would only be issuing statements from time to time and was not authorized to speak to the press at present, noting that it was a technical body and not a political one. |