The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have publicly announced steps they are taking to ensure that Cambodian personnel at the tribunal are recruited in a transparent and effective manner, local media reported Wednesday.
In a joint statement issued late Tuesday, the ECCC, the United Nations, and UNDP, said that new recruitment procedures have been formalized, assessments of current employees will be conducted by the end of the year, and a mandatory code of conduct will soon be developed, according to the Cambodia Daily newspaper.
The joint statement added that the new code of conduct will ban "ECCC staff from receiving or soliciting payments other than salaries for the performance of official duties."
Earlier this year, New York-based legal NGO the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) alleged that Cambodian members of staff were obliged to give high-ranking government officials kickbacks from their UN funded salaries in order to ensure their positions.
UNDP countered that it had contracted Malaysian firm Candide Consultancy to carry out a full human resources audit, but its results were never released publicly.
A report in the Asian Wall Street Journal last week claimed that the confidential audit found, "serious lapses in the recruitment process," and that, "all the recruitments of staff .. should be nullified."
Unless the Cambodian side agrees to measures ensuring the integrity of the project, the UN should consider withdrawing from the project altogether, said the audit.
"(Withdrawing from the ECCC) is not an option anyone is in a position to contemplate, but people recognize these are serious problems and have not hesitated to say so," a diplomat told the Cambodia Daily on condition of anonymity.
Source: Xinhua
In a joint statement issued late Tuesday, the ECCC, the United Nations, and UNDP, said that new recruitment procedures have been formalized, assessments of current employees will be conducted by the end of the year, and a mandatory code of conduct will soon be developed, according to the Cambodia Daily newspaper.
The joint statement added that the new code of conduct will ban "ECCC staff from receiving or soliciting payments other than salaries for the performance of official duties."
Earlier this year, New York-based legal NGO the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) alleged that Cambodian members of staff were obliged to give high-ranking government officials kickbacks from their UN funded salaries in order to ensure their positions.
UNDP countered that it had contracted Malaysian firm Candide Consultancy to carry out a full human resources audit, but its results were never released publicly.
A report in the Asian Wall Street Journal last week claimed that the confidential audit found, "serious lapses in the recruitment process," and that, "all the recruitments of staff .. should be nullified."
Unless the Cambodian side agrees to measures ensuring the integrity of the project, the UN should consider withdrawing from the project altogether, said the audit.
"(Withdrawing from the ECCC) is not an option anyone is in a position to contemplate, but people recognize these are serious problems and have not hesitated to say so," a diplomat told the Cambodia Daily on condition of anonymity.
Source: Xinhua
2 comments:
According to Hun Sen,he likes flexibility when comes to aid fund.So he can spend at any way he likes,but UNDP should know by now in dealing with Hun Sen government.
No honey no money,
UNDP holds all money unless Hun Sen agrees to supply 100% pure honey,simple.
The yoyoyo.. TRIAL for 60 Million USD. They said oh we have the UN.
Oh yeahhh? The UN has no troops to even protect the witnesses.
Who pays the UN? Not surprise to me if the Youn gave a big fat envelop with $$$ to the UN, OK keeps the KRT in Cambodia make Cambodian silent.
Who says the the UN is not corrupted? Everybody needs money to feed themselves.
Ah Yuon is win-win again. Ah Yuon killed Khmers using Khmers to kill KHmers then ah Yuon now are holding high positions in Cambodia such as Ah Nguyen Van Son Hok Lundy.
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT ALL AH YUON ARMY LEFT CAMBODIA IN 1975. THEY WERE IN WITH KHMER ROUGH, THAT'S WHY THEY FOUGHT AND KILL EACH OTHER. AH YIEK CONG ALREADY KNEW ALL THE ROUTES HOW TO SNEAK INTO CAMBODIA AND TO SNEAK OUT, SO WHAT THOSE MINES CAN HELP IF AH YIEK CONG ALREADY KNEW EVERYTHING INSIDE CAMBODIA?
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