October 17th, 2005 - WASHINGTON, DC - Warning that the United Nations lacks the leadership and will to reform itself, Senator Norm Coleman will urge the adoption of extensive reforms that stemmed from his 19-month long Senate Investigations Subcommittee probe into the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday, October 18, 2005 titled, Prospects for United Nations Reform.
The hearing will include testimony from John Bolton, U.S. Permanent Representative to the U.N., and Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program.
Coleman has been critical of the lack of progress on reform at the recent U.N. World Summit held in New York, saying members failed to address the critical components of U.N. reform that have been proposed following revelations of widespread abuses and scandals in U.N. activities ranging from humanitarian programs to peacekeeping.
In asserting that Congress must drive meaningful U.N. reform, Coleman will encourage witnesses to support the United Nations, Management, Personnel, and Policy Reform Act of 2005, co-authored by Coleman (R-MN) and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Lugar (R-IN).
To help restore the U.N.’s credibility and efficacy, the Coleman-Lugar Bill includes several provisions to lead the U.N. towards greater transparency, accountability, and oversight.
WHO: SENATOR NORM COLEMAN (R-MN)
WHAT: SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE HEARING
WHERE: DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING 106
WHEN: 9:30 A.M. EDT
OCTOBER 18, 2005
Contact(s):
Andrea Wuebker, (651) 645-0323
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