UN staff union mulls no-confidence motion against senior UN management

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UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — The UN staff union was meeting to discuss a no-confidence measure against senior management of the United Nations, which has been hit by a series of scandals involving top UN officials.

But sources said a planned vote could be put off until next week after UN officials asked to meet with union members to quell the uproar over a possible no-confidence vote in senior management of the world body led by Secretary General Kofi Annan.

"The idea is to keep dialogue going and see if we can't sort out our differences so that it isn't necessary to adopt a resolution saying they have no confidence in senior management," Annan spokesman Fred Eckhard said.

"We'd certainly like them to have more confidence in us, and we hope that we can achieve...