Dear Claudia,

Thanks for the interesting story and the coverage, which implies an inherent capacity to investigate. As a UN junior personnel, I have no claims to make on the piece, but just two comments. First, Kofi Annan’s apt, as the one of every UN’s, is not subsidized by NY tax payers, but rather worlwide tax payers. Please try not to politicize the issue. Your articles indeed implies over benefits that UN personnel should not be allowed to. Let me remind you that, whatever position is held at the UN, salaries are usually half of any diplomatic personnell, and usually are not even comparable with those from the very same scale of responsibilities hold in private sector companies.

Having said that, surely the UN is not proof-read by acts corruption of mismanagement. These cases must be investigated and punished. However, let me remind the first commentarist to this article that the central point should not be “I am trying to figure out if there is actually any good coming out of the UN.”, but rather focussing on where the real source of power is within the UN. You will “astonishingly” find that UN Administrators and personnell are far less powerful than Presidents of States, whose control and decisions of actions over the United Nations often countervene the spirit of the UN.