Mukerji said it was an issue increasingly raised at UNDP board meetings.
When I wrote about this pattern in December, Iran had just secured itself a three-year seat on the 36-member UNDP board.
Iran's seat on the UNDP board will automatically confer seats on the governing boards of the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) and the U.N. Development Fund for Women UNIFEMM).
It turned out the UNDP's Pyongyang office, in violation of its own rules, had been funneling hard cash to Kim Jong Il's regime, storing counterfeit $100 banknotes in its office safe and, with North Korea then on the UNDP board, was using development funds to buy business class tickets for North Korean officials to attend board meetings in New York.
Development Adviser at the Australian Mission to the United Nations Chris Stokes presented the report on a joint field visit of 23 members of the executive boards of UNDP, UNFPA, UNOPS, UN Women, WFP and UNICEF to Myanmar and Thailand.
"From our respective Missions to the UN, we often discuss how to make the UN system more coherent and more efficient," said Eduardo Porretti, Minister Counselor at the Mission of Argentina to the UN, and representing his country on the Boards of UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS.
A workshop called "Monitoring the Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the poor and vulnerable in Indonesia" organized by Bappenas, the national planning board, and supported by UNDP, UNICEF and other UN agencies was held this week in Jakarta.
Focus on collaboration The joint visit to Djibouti and Ethiopia – made with members of the Executive Boards of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Population Fund UNFPA, UN Office for Project Serviceses (UNOPS), UN-Women and the World Food Programme (WFP) – underscored the importance of close coordination among all development partners.
Table 1 below presents UNDP GII for the 16 countries.
Currently, Irans Ambassador Khazaee, among his other activities, is rounding out a one-year 2009 term as president of the executive board of the U.N.s flagship agency, the U.N. Development Program, or UNDP.
Next year, Iran is slated to begin a three-year term on the 36-member executive board of the U.N.'s flagship agency, the U.N. Development Program, or UNDP.
