U.N. Agency Provided $2.3M Worth of Equipment for Venezuela — Or Did It?

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,344453,00.html

Geniuses at work...

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Sorry, a very long article- but interesting to me...

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Hmmmm.....sounds like the UN is doing some underhanded dealings with Venezuela.



The 58054 accord was signed on Nov. 9 — roughly eight months after McLachlan-Kerr’s office asked UNDP headquarters for a waiver of competitive bidding on the 19-scanner deal known as RBLAC/07/066.

Most of document 58054 describes a much broader plan for customs modernization over the two years of the deal. It includes a UNDP role as a general procurement agent, described as an “agent of technical and administrative support” of SENIAT, but with the Venezuelan government agency holding the final power of decision.

The ultimate aim of the project is described more specifically in an annex as support for SENIAT “in the reorganizing the taxation system in correspondence with the productive socialist model of the State and the Institution.”

In return, UNDP will be paid about $3.37 million, or 5% of the total value of the deal. Venezuelan payments for goods and services, as well as UNDP’s share, is to be channeled through a specified UNDP bank account in New York.

The deal also provides that UNDP “promises to acquire for SENIAT all the equipment, goods and software necessary for the execution of the project.”

Among the goods and services mentioned in an annex are “non-intrusive” scanners and radiation detection equipment for up to 16 airports, but there is no specific mention of human body scanners.

Behind the foggy complexities of UNDP’s role in the airline scanner puzzle lies a deeper question: what role is an agency devoted to alleviating international poverty playing as a general contractor for the authoritarian rulers of an oil-rich nation, who are also avowed supporters of terrorism in the Western Hemisphere?

And another question: whether the close, often secretive, and apparently quite profitable relationship that UNDP has forged in Venezuela really serves the high-minded goals of the United Nations as a whole.

Sums up Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, a member of the U.S. Senate’s homeland security and government affairs committee: “We simply cannot afford to give President Chavez or the UNDP any benefit of doubt.”

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Maybe we should just stop funding the UN altogether.

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Maybe we should just stop funding the UN altogether.

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Maybe we should just stop funding the UN altogether.


Stop funding them... Get them off our soil and tell them to go setup in Tehran or something where they SHOULD BE. Heh.... They're nothing but anti-US and anti-semites.