The nature of the culture is such that the changes we want, both in the way the secretariat functions, and the way member governments function, needs to be changed in a substantial way.
Quotes about secretariat (15 Quotes)
The findings in today's report must be deeply embarrassing to us all, ... The Inquiry Committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly corners of the organization. None of us - member states, Secretariat, agencies, funds and programs - can be proud of what it has found.
I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.
Quite some time ago the president said unequivocally we support the development goals in the millennium summit declaration, ... Now that's different from the goals that were actually written by the secretariat. There is no backing away by the United States in the support for the millennium summit declaration.
Responsibility for what went wrong with the program cannot be laid exclusively at the door of the UN Secretariat,
Here's a guy that was running away from the pack like Secretariat winning the Belmont by 30 lengths, and now people are starting to question the quality he was running away from. Exactly what was he 30 lengths ahead of ... But now that he's lost and lost in devastating fashion, I think people are asking that question louder and more often.
In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.
There were bribes there were kickbacks there was lax oversight from the Secretariat and some member states turned a blind eye toward this corruption.
If there's a concern right now with the U.N., it is that we really do need a strong reform agenda on the key issues - management reform, secretariat reform.
That suicide squeeze reminds me of the time that Mickey Mantle, Muhammad Ali, Secretariat and I had to buy an anniversary gift for President Nixon...
He already accepted responsibility for management failures in the Secretariat. He also notes that the latest report confirms the committee's earlier finding that the respective roles and responsibilities of the Secretariat, the Security Council and the 661 Committee -- which approved all of the contracts, including the prices -- were never clearly enough defined, ... Most importantly, the secretary-general believes that thorough reform of the management structures and practices of the United Nations, especially those that relate to oversight, transparency and accountability, is vital.
The recent attacks on the secretary-general, easier to attack than the institution as a whole, have little to do with the actual (and quite limited) instances of corrupt activities in the secretariat, and everything to do with Annan's statement that the U. S. war in Iraq was illegal and the organisation's refusal to endorse the U. S.-UK invasion, ... Calling the Shots How Washington Dominates Today's U. N.
Due process, therefore, must take its course before the Secretariat (the IAEA administration) is able to submit a detailed report.
On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.
I think anybody is entitled to vote for whomever they want, and I think Secretariat does qualify as an athlete,