Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.
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That was foreseen by many of us 10 years ago when the issue popped up, and again in 2004-2005 when the question returned to the top of the U.N.'s agenda.
The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.
The Oil-for-Food Program was set up as a way for the Iraqi people to receive humanitarian goods and not to line the pockets of the ruling party ... Any attempts to circumvent the UN's regulations and pay money directly to the government are being closely examined and, where appropriate, will be prosecuted.
The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
Giving developing countries greater representation and say in the UN, increasing the UN's input to the question of development and realizing the Millennium Development Goals on schedule, these should be places on the very top of the reform agenda,
Once again, victims of disaster have turned to the UN and the international community in their time of need. The world needs the UN's leadership in these times, and the UN needs the world's support. We are communicating with the UN and its agencies to learn where UN Foundation funds may be of greatest assistance to the UN's relief efforts.
Our preliminary review of these audits only underscores my long held concern about the fraud, mismanagement and lack of adequate oversight at the U.N.'s oil for food program,
The world will never be able to learn the full extent of the bribes, kickbacks and under-the-table payments that occurred under the U.N.'s collective nose while Annan is in charge.
The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.
It is not the U.N.'s wish to have these barricades and things in place, however, as part of security provisions for doing our work here, they have been necessary in the past.