United Nations - Friday, May 2, 2008 7:21 - 0 Comments

Damning UN Reports at Center of Guns for Gold Leaked

On March 11,2008, chief UN investigator Inga-Britt Alenius, was pressed by reporters, for answers over copies of a report on her agency, the Office of Internal Oversight Services, and its embattled Investigative Division.

In a statement Alenius replied “It’s my document, for my perusal,”.

The UN’s Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions noted that “the Committee did not have the benefit of access to the review itself, as OIOS declined to provide it.”

These reports were at the center of a BBC report which claimed that the UN covered up that its troops in DR of Congo gave arms to militias and smuggled gold and ivory. The allegations were based on confidential UN sources, involve Pakistani and Indian troops working as peace keepers. It further stated that the UN investigated some of the claims in 2007, but said it could not substantiate claims of arms dealing, but UN insiders told the BBC, they had been prevented from pursuing their inquiries for political reasons. Story reported here Continue…