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Protesters burn an effigy of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon as they block the entrance to the United Nations headquarters in Colombo July 6, 2010.
Tuesday, Jul. 20, 2010

Open quoteI regret to say that the secretariat now is in a process of decay.Close quote

  • INGA-BRITT AHLENIUS,
  • a senior U.N. official charged with combating corruption who stepped down Friday, July 16, in a scathing 50-page memo to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accusing him of leading the institution into an era of decline
Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Reuters | Source: Washington Post