Y2Kyoto: Where’s Mo?

You know Mo – Maurice Strong, Member of the Privy Council, mentor to Paul Martin Jr,m “architect of Kyoto”, former UN special envoy to North Korea, and the best friend a thievin’ UN Secretary General ever had…
(Beijing, some say, making “megatonnes of money” helping the Chinese sustain their economy.)
But, one thing we do know is where he’s not supposed to be;

UNITED NATIONS, January 28 — Ten officials of the Kim Jong Il regime in North Korea were flown to the University of Lund in Sweden in August 2006, according to UNDP spokesman David Morrison, by the UN-affiliated University for Peace, on whose governing Council still sits Maurice F. Strong, who ostensibly left the UN system following being linked, through a South Korean lobbyist, to the Oil for Food scandal in April 2005.
In continued reporting on the North Korea and audit controversy which led to a deferral of UNDP’s North Korea program by its Executive Board last week, Inner City Press asked UNDP to describe its role in the travel of 10 North Korean officials to University of Lund six months ago. Having received no response to its written questions, on January 25 Inner City Press asked the head of UNDP’s Office of Communications David Morrison the same question, after a press conference on the upcoming audit of UNDP. Mr. Morrison replied that the travel was paid by the University of Peace, “which is part of the UN system,” with UNDP only arranging the travel, through UNDP’s Beijing office.
Further inquiry reveals that while serving as both President of the University of Peace and as Kofi Annan’s envoy to North Korea, Maurice Strong, “convened a working group on energy” in the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.” According to the University for Peace’s web site, Strong’s group presented its findings, to the nations in the Six Party Talks just prior to their meeting in Beijing in late 2005.
Despite statements that Maurice Strong has left the UN system following corruption scandal involving hiring relatives, as of January 28, 2007, Mr. Strong is still on the Council of the UN-affiliated University for Peace. (Click here and scroll down, noting that the web site has already been updated to include the photo of Ban Ki-moon.) And the energy work with the Kim Jong Il regime has continued.

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