| Date | 17 September 2007 |
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Agenda item 154
Follow-up to the recommendations on administrative management and internal oversight of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme
The President
Members will recall that at its 2nd plenary meeting, on 13 September 2006, the General Assembly decided to include this item in the agenda of the sixty-first session.
Mr. Ballestero (Costa Rica)
Throughout the world, the work of the United Nations is rightly acknowledged as being essential for the well-being of all peoples. It is with that goal in mind that we establish programmes and take action. Unfortunately, the image and the effectiveness of the United Nations have been affected by acts of corruption involving high-level staff members. The General Assembly ought to engage in full analysis and consideration of the consequences and implications of those acts.
Costa Rica is convinced that the only way in which we can avoid a repetition of such shameful and sad chapters as the scandal that we witnessed regarding the oil-for-food programme is through an in-depth analysis of all of the events. Certainly, based on the Volcker report, that analysis and the adoption of appropriate measures should be carried out within the General Assembly, since it is the principal legislative and deliberative organ of the Organization.
For that reason, Costa Rica would like us to retain this item on the agenda for the sixty-second session of the General Assembly.
Allow me to conclude, Madam President, by thanking you and your team for your work at the head of our deliberations. My delegation recognizes your efforts in recent months, and we welcome the success achieved thanks to your leadership. We wish you all the best in the future -- and we know that that future will be very satisfactory for you.
The President
May I take it that it is the wish of the General Assembly to defer consideration of this item and to include it in the draft agenda of the sixty-second session?
The President
The Assembly has thus concluded its consideration of agenda item 154.
