[Mb-civic] At the U.N., a Growing Republican Presence - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

At the U.N., a Growing Republican Presence

By Colum Lynch
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 21, 2005; Page A21

UNITED NATIONS, July 20 -- Christopher B. Burnham, the highest-ranking 
U.S. citizen working in the U.N. Secretariat, is a rare breed here: a 
Republican Party loyalist and an enthusiastic supporter of President Bush.

Burnham, the United Nations' undersecretary for the department of 
management, is one of a handful of Bush administration supporters hired 
by the United Nations in recent months. They have been promoting Bush's 
political agenda in an organization that has clashed bitterly with 
Republican policymakers over such issues as the impact of global warming 
and the justification for the war in Iraq.

<>Burnham says he sees his purpose as furthering the mission he began as 
the chief financial officer in the Bush State Department: making the 
bureaucracy he oversees more accountable. Burnham suggested that his 
ultimate loyalty may lie with the president, not his new boss, U.N. 
Secretary General Kofi Annan. He says he also relishes the thought of 
working with John R. Bolton, a close friend and Bush's choice as U.N. 
ambassador, to force change.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002000.html?nav=hcmodule 

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