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To: goldworldnet who wrote (5075)	5/2/2006 2:07:04 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 14758

'Quid Pro Kofi' In U.N. Furor (OK’d top enviro post to panelist one month after he gave Kofi $500K) NY Post ^ \| May 2, 2006 \| Niles Lathem Kofi Annan came under fire yesterday for his role in giving a prestigious post to a man who had sat on a panel that awarded the U.N. secretary-general a prize worth $500,000. Members of Congress and other critics pushing to clean up the United Nations have raised sharp questions over the still-murky circumstances that led to the appointment of Achim Steiner of Germany to head the U.N. Environmental Program. Steiner, a well-known international activist who headed the World Conservation Union, was a judge on a panel that awarded Annan the $500,000 Zayed Prize for Global Environmental Leadership, sponsored by the United Arab Emirates. The prize was awarded last December. Less than a month later, Steiner's name was included on a short list of candidates for the U.N. environmental job, and his appointment was made official on March 15... < snip > Dujarric said Steiner's name was not put forward by a government. He refused to say who nominated him to the U.N. environmental panel, saying only that a committee that included other U.N. officials debated the nomination and Annan made the final decision... < snip > The Steiner appointment came despite the fact that his predecessor, Klaus Toepfer, was also German. Normally, the U.N. rotates top appointments to different countries. Toepfer also sat on the same panel that awarded the $500,000 prize to Annan.