By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
May 1 -- The
musical chairs
game triggered
UN Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's five
year mobility
rule has very
few seats left
to fill.
China, it has
reliably been
confirmed to
Inner City
Press, has
submitted two
names to
replace Sha
Zukang as
head of the
Department of
Economic and
Society
Affairs
mid-year,
after the Rio
+ 20
conference.
Inner City
Press can
report that
the Senegalese
registrar
at the
International
Criminal
Tribunal on
Rwanda, Adama
Dieng, is
being eyed for
the top
position in
the Department
of General
Assembly
and Conference
Management, a
belated post
for sub
Saharan
Africa.
Dieng
was
previously
passed over
for Special
Adviser on
Africa, as
exclusively
reported by
Inner City
Press, given
to Maged
Abdelaziz who
is still even
after the
award by Ban
representing
Egypt
at the UN.
The
top position
in the
Department of
Public
Information, a
major donor
tells Inner
City Press,
might to an
American, "so
Ban can do
better on
Capitol Hill
and with the
US press."
Other
say what
with the US
in line for
the Department
of Political
Affairs,
probably
with Jeffrey
Feltman as
first reported
by Inner
City Press,
the best
the US could
get in DPA
would be an
Assistant
Secretary
General post
which for now
does not
exist.
In this
scenario,
Inner City
Press is told
that "some
Austrian"
would get the
DPI top spot.
This is how
Ban's UN
works, or
doesn't.
Japan
has been
taken care of,
with former
Permanent
Representative
Yukio
Takasu
being put atop
the Department
of Management.
Several
sources had
told
Inner City
Press that the
US was opposed
to this, and
now predict
that the
Office of
Human Rights
Management and
even the
Controller
will be moved
out of DM and
report
directly to
Ban Ki-moon.
If so, it
would be a
loss of face
for number two
funder Japan.
Ban's
senior
adviser and
now "Change
Management"
czar Kim
Won-soo was
seen this week
briefing the Group of 77,
which passed a
resolution to
hold Ban's
plan to
account in the
General
Assembly.
Kim in his
previous
incarnation as
Deputy Chief
of Staff often
traveled with
Ban, but this
time did not
go with him to
Myanmar.
Nor,
apparently,
did new Chief
of Staff
Susana
Malcorra, seen
Monday night
at the US
End of
Security
Council
Presidency
reception. Ban's
Myanmar trip
gave
rise to very
few updates to
the press, as
we've noted.
What will
happen with
Ban comes
back? Watch
this site.
