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The Dutch decision comes a day after a similar move by Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
, which said it would suspend additional contributions.
UN Sherlocks have opened an inquiry after an internal report alleged "serious ethical abuses" at the highest level at the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
As one of the agency’s main Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...an donors the Netherlands "expressed... its great concern and asked for clarification," the Dutch foreign ministry says in a statement.
Sigrid Kaag, foreign trade and development cooperation minister, "would like to hear what steps the UN plans to take based on the outcome of the investigation," it adds.
Therefore "Minister Kaag has decided to put this year’s contribution on hold until we have received a satisfactory response from the UN in New York," it says.
According to a confidential report by the UNRWA ethics office claims its top management including Commissioner General Pierre Krahenbuhl "have engaged in sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and other abuses of authority."