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Topic : UNDP’s aid toward North Korea
Participants : Changhee Lee, Wonjin Lime, Kyungmi Kim, Sunjeong Hwang, Sunghoon Park, Soohyun Lee
Presenter: Soohyun Lee
Coordinator: Soohyun Lee
contents:
* Summary: UNDP’s aid toward North Korea
1> United States Representative for United Nations Management and Reform
(January 16, 2007)
-It was written this past Tuesday by Mark D. Wallace, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform. It was sent to Ad Melkert, an administrator at the United Nations Development Program. Mr. Wallace was permitted to attend a sort of executive review of audits made of the United Nation’s assistance programs for North Korea. One can only suppose that the content of these audits was not supposed to be known.
=> Because of the actions of the DPRK government an the complicity of UNDP, UNDP DPRK program has been systematically perverted for the benefit of the Kim Jong Il regime rather than the people of North Korea.
=> All UNDP local staff in the DPRK are seconded from and controlled by the DPRK government.
=> UNDP directly executed programs, which constituted 28.7% o all DPRK programs.
=> DPRK government does not accept checks only cash.
=> UNDP rules require at least one project field visit per year; however, DPRK prohibits foreign visitors from visiting various UNDP DPRK project sites.
2> UNDP Statement on North Korea Operations
(19 January 2007)
-UNDP has conducted operation in the DPRK in accordance with the decisions of the member states on UNDP Executive Board and with resolutions passed recently by the UN Security Council.
-The Executive Board directly approved financial regulations on the basis of which authority was delegated to the Resident Coordinator in DPRK.
-UNDP will be seeking guidance form the Executive Board at their meeting next week on conducting a full independent and external audit of the current programme and we would welcome such a measure.
3> UNITED NATIONS
(22 January, 2007)
-U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for external audits of some U.N. programs to see if they were free of government interference.
-Ban was reacting to U.S. criticism that the U.N. Development Fund, or UNDP, was inadvertently channeling hard currency into the hands of North Korea's rulers by paying local staff, recruited by the government, in euros.
-Ban on Friday had called for a "systemwide and external inquiry" into "all" U.N. funds and programs, a task that would be costly and take many years.
4> Talking points
- The valuation for the questions aroused by America
- The valuation for the answers given by UNDP
-Estimation of the period, Why have America had questions to the UNDP on DPRK at this point?
-How’s the current situation between the United States and North Korea? (BDA, Six-Party Talks, Dialogue between two countries)
- According to the Ban’s proclaim, How and What would be happened in the future regarding the DPRK and the International Organization including UN?
- For the sustainable Humanitarian Aid for DPRK, what should each sector has to do: DPRK, ROK, UNDP, other International Organization like WFP, UN, America or else (NGO), and me?
Participants : Changhee Lee, Wonjin Lime, Kyungmi Kim, Sunjeong Hwang, Sunghoon Park, Soohyun Lee
Presenter: Soohyun Lee
Coordinator: Soohyun Lee
contents:
* Summary: UNDP’s aid toward North Korea
1> United States Representative for United Nations Management and Reform
(January 16, 2007)
-It was written this past Tuesday by Mark D. Wallace, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform. It was sent to Ad Melkert, an administrator at the United Nations Development Program. Mr. Wallace was permitted to attend a sort of executive review of audits made of the United Nation’s assistance programs for North Korea. One can only suppose that the content of these audits was not supposed to be known.
=> Because of the actions of the DPRK government an the complicity of UNDP, UNDP DPRK program has been systematically perverted for the benefit of the Kim Jong Il regime rather than the people of North Korea.
=> All UNDP local staff in the DPRK are seconded from and controlled by the DPRK government.
=> UNDP directly executed programs, which constituted 28.7% o all DPRK programs.
=> DPRK government does not accept checks only cash.
=> UNDP rules require at least one project field visit per year; however, DPRK prohibits foreign visitors from visiting various UNDP DPRK project sites.
2> UNDP Statement on North Korea Operations
(19 January 2007)
-UNDP has conducted operation in the DPRK in accordance with the decisions of the member states on UNDP Executive Board and with resolutions passed recently by the UN Security Council.
-The Executive Board directly approved financial regulations on the basis of which authority was delegated to the Resident Coordinator in DPRK.
-UNDP will be seeking guidance form the Executive Board at their meeting next week on conducting a full independent and external audit of the current programme and we would welcome such a measure.
3> UNITED NATIONS
(22 January, 2007)
-U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for external audits of some U.N. programs to see if they were free of government interference.
-Ban was reacting to U.S. criticism that the U.N. Development Fund, or UNDP, was inadvertently channeling hard currency into the hands of North Korea's rulers by paying local staff, recruited by the government, in euros.
-Ban on Friday had called for a "systemwide and external inquiry" into "all" U.N. funds and programs, a task that would be costly and take many years.
4> Talking points
- The valuation for the questions aroused by America
- The valuation for the answers given by UNDP
-Estimation of the period, Why have America had questions to the UNDP on DPRK at this point?
-How’s the current situation between the United States and North Korea? (BDA, Six-Party Talks, Dialogue between two countries)
- According to the Ban’s proclaim, How and What would be happened in the future regarding the DPRK and the International Organization including UN?
- For the sustainable Humanitarian Aid for DPRK, what should each sector has to do: DPRK, ROK, UNDP, other International Organization like WFP, UN, America or else (NGO), and me?
