
	Where results make sense

Topic: Ad Melkert

Related Topics

Dries van Agt

Wim Kok

Queen Beatrix

Ruud Lubbers

Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands

Juliana of the Netherlands

Claus von Amsberg

Srebrenica massacre

Club of Rome

	UNDP - Ad Melkert, UNDP Associate Administrator
		Ad Melkert was appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the position of UN Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of UNDP effective 1 March, 2006.
		Melkert represented Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Israel, FYR Macedonia, Moldova, The Netherlands, Romania, and Ukraine.
		Melkert holds a Master's degree in Political Sciences from the University of Amsterdam.
	www.undp.org /about/melkert.shtml (277 words)

	Global March Against Child Labour - From Exploitation to Education
		Melkert has been a great supporter of the Global March Against Child Labour since its inception and walked shoulder to shoulder during the physical march in The Netherlands in 1998 along with thousands of child labourers and his family members.
		Melkert has categorically stated that eliminating child labour is essential in the quest for achieving the MDGs, especially EFA and poverty eradication.
		Melkert served as Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, and was a member of the Standing Committees for Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation in the Parliament.
	www.globalmarch.org /news/admelkert.php3 (782 words)

	Euro2day :: Ad Melkert statement
		Melkert was aware of or had somehow approved the specifics Ms Riza's external assignment are false.
		Mr Melkert notes that the Ad Hoc Group looking into the matter has already found that the terms and conditions of the package had not been "commented on, reviewed or approved" by the Ethics Committee, Mr Melkert or the Bank's board.
		Finally, Mr Melkert notes that as this issue unfolded, he spoke with the press only after it became clear that spokespersons for Mr Wolfowitz were misrepresenting the role of the Ethics Committee and of him personally.
	www.euro2day.gr /articlesfna/33780916 (765 words)

	Partij van de Arbeid \| details-wo-r
		Ad Melkert is geboren op 12 februari 1956 in Gouda.
		Ad Melkerts eerste baan na zijn studie was die van algemeen secretaris van het Jeugdforum van de Europese Gemeenschappen in Brussel.
		Melkert nam initiatieven voor betere regelingen voor deeltijdwerk en het aantal kinderopvangplaatsen werd flink uitgebreid.
	www.admelkert.nl /renderer.do/menuId/45693/clearState/true/sf/45693/returnPage/45693/itemId/13549/realItemId/13549/pageId/45704/instanceId/45765 (624 words)

	Praktische opdracht Maatschappijleer Ad Melkert \| scholieren.com
		Ad Melkert zegt natuurlijk vooral in deze tijd heel erg veel, hier een paar uitspraken van hem:
		Volgens Melkert is samenwerking ook onmogelijk omdat Fortuyn teveel kritiek heeft op 8 jaar Paars en de P.v.d.A. Uit opiniepeilingen van het NIPO blijkt dat Fortuyn kan rekenen op 27 zetels.
		Melkert wil niet reageren op deze kritiek, maar volgens zijn woordvoeder heeft Koole niet alleen kritiek op Ad gegeven, maar ook positieve dingen gezegd.
	www.scholieren.com /werkstukken/7692 (5074 words)

	Secretary-General Appoints Ad Melkert of Netherlands as Associate Administrator of United Nations Development Programme
		Melkert has represented the Dutch constituency as an Executive Director of the World Bank, where he has been a strong advocate for increased donor coordination and harmonization, and the need for more equitable development policies, good governance and democratic institutions.
		Melkert had a prominent political career in the Dutch Labour Party, where he was one of the youngest members of the Lower House of Parliament. He became his party's parliamentary leader in 1998. In 2001, he was elected party leader, succeeding then-Prime Minister Wim Kok.
		Melkert, who was born on 12 February 1956, holds a master's degree in political sciences from the University of Amsterdam. He is married to Chilean painter Mónica León Borquez and has two daughters. In addition to Dutch, he speaks English, German, French, and Spanish.
	www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/pressrels/2006/sga974.html (197 words)

	Inner City Press -- Investigative Journalism from the United Nations
		Melkert and his spokesman, left unnamed by the FT, were last week presented with a choice between accepting blame for the Riza raises or, in essence, throwing Wolfowitz under the bus.
		Melkert not surprisingly chose the latter route, apparently in the hopes that contrary documents would not be released, or would emerge only after a Wolfowitz resignation.
		Melkert nevertheless began with the "hope you are not going to ask me about all the meeting that I've had." He continued that "for this exception case, yes, this First December meeting, I was...
	www.innercitypress.com /melkert041407.html (3198 words)

	NOVA - Ad Melkert
		De meningen lopen te zeer uit een, Melkerts liefde voor het machtspolitieke spel wordt in het PPR-milieu hoogst ongewoon gevonden en wekt vermoedelijk nog meer wantrouwen dan zijn regeringsgezindheid en zijn diplomatenkoffer.
		Melkert heeft vooral het imago van een koele machtspoliticus en een groot kenner van koopkrachtcijfers en a/i-ratio's.
		In 1994 wordt hij minister van Sociale Zaken in het eerste kabinet-Kok was geworden, maar hij raakt het beeld van de ijzige rekenmeester niet kwijt.
	www.novatv.nl /index.cfm?ln=nl&fuseaction=artikelen.details&achtergrond_id=1058 (723 words)

	Wolfowitz says he acted within World Bank guidance - Boston.com
		Melkert, who headed the bank's ethics committee at the time of Riza's transfer to the State Department, told the ad hoc panel on Tuesday that Wolfowitz's insistence on maintaining professional contacts with Riza violated staff rules and that he maintained this opinion even after ethics committee advice to the contrary.
		He added that Melkert gave him oral and written advice to "instruct" the bank's human resources director to proceed with arrangements for the secondment.
		Melkert recognized had made a substantial contribution to the bank -- was for all intents and purposes effectively ended over her objections," Wolfowitz wrote.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2007/05/03/wolfowitz_says_acted_within_world_bank_guidance (529 words)

	nrc.nl - Gesloten dossiers-JSF-Nieuws - Even lucht voor geplaagde Ad Melkert
		De onverwachts snelle kabinetscrisis had een gunstig bijeffect voor Ad Melkert.
		Twee lastige en pijnlijke onderwerpen voor de PvdA-lijsttrekker kwamen gisteren niet aan de orde: de beslissing of Nederland moet meedoen aan de ontwikkeling van de Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) en de teloorgang van Arbeidsvoorziening waarvoor hij als minister van Sociale Zaken tussen 1994 en 1998 verantwoordelijk is geweest.
		Inmiddels heeft Timmermans laten weten hoe dan ook tegen te zullen stemmen, waardoor Melkert afkoerste op een verdeelde fractie.
	www.nrc.nl /geslotendossiers/jsf/nieuws/article57209.ece (406 words)

	De Groene 39 / 2003: Interview Ad Melkert
		Melkert heeft daar nu sinds een jaar twaalf landen onder zijn hoede: Nederland, Armenië, Georgië, Oekraïne, Moldavië, Roemenië, Bulgarije, Macedonië, Bosnië, Kroatië, Cyprus en Israël.
		Die weigering spoort met het beeld dat het publiek van Melkert had, heeft en mogelijk houdt: dat van een afstandelijke persoonlijkheid die maatschappelijke problemen eerst analyseert of politiseert en bijna nooit personaliseert.
		Ad Melkert: «Volgens mij zijn de identificatieproblemen bij de kiezers ontstaan door verwarring over de vraag wie spreken we aan op de inkomensverhoudingen, de ontplooiingskansen en de indeling van de schaarse ruimte?, want dat zijn toch de klassieke linkse kwesties.
	www.groene.nl /2003/0339/hs_melkert.html (2681 words)

	Press Releases: Sudan, Ad Melkert visits Sudan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ad Melkert, United Nations Under Secretary-General and UNDP Associate Administrator ended yesterday a four-day visit to Sudan by confirming UN's support to the implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that put an end to Africa's longest civil war.
		Adding to this challenge, Southern Sudan is having to respond to the needs of an estimated 500,000 displaced persons returning to the region per year.
		Melkert concluded his visit with an hour-long interaction with members of civil society forums made up of women and men from different political parties, legal professionals, the media, civil society, youth, and capacity trainers.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/YAOI-6T54ME?OpenDocument (842 words)

	WireImage: Listings
		Ad Melkert, Associate Adminsistrator of the UNDP with Maria Sharapova and David Morrison...
		Ad Melkert, Associate Adminsistrator of the UNDP presents Maria Sharapova with the UNDP...
		Ad Melkert, Associate Adminsistrator of the UNDP shakes hands with Maria Sharapove during the...
	www.wireimage.com /Gallerylisting.asp?navtyp=gls====260255&nbc1=1&c4nvi=3&styp=clbi&str=21430 (562 words)

	Ad Melkert visits Sudan
		Ad Melkert, United Nations Under Secretary-General and UNDP Associate Administrator ended yesterday a four-day visit to Sudan by confirming UN’s support to the implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that put an end to Africa’s longest civil war.
		Adding to this challenge, Southern Sudan is having to respond to the needs of an estimated 500,000 displaced persons returning to the region per year. Following a long and arduous civil war, Southern Sudan is for the first time in a position to plan for sustainable development.
		Melkert concluded his visit with an hour-long interaction with members of civil society forums made up of women and men from different political parties, legal professionals, the media, civil society, youth, and capacity trainers.
	content.undp.org /go/newsroom/2006/august/melkert-sudan-20060828.en?categoryID=349432&lang=en (804 words)

	Adviser to Wolfowitz Faces Similar Accusations - April 20, 2007 - The New York Sun
		Melkert found an organization that does not even have such management tools as an ethics committee.
		Melkert's title is associate administrator, but he is universally considered the de facto top man at the agency that disperses $5 billion annually worldwide.
		Melkert belongs to a class of officials who migrate between international organizations.
	www.nysun.com /article/52896 (467 words)

	OpinionJournal - Featured Article
		The "ad hoc" chairman is Herman Wijffels, a Dutch politician who has his own blatant conflict of interest in the case.
		Melkert is lying now, or he was negligent when he wrote that letter.
		Melkert as the Dutch representative on the bank board, so he has a clear conflict of interest in judging his countryman's abdication.
	www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110010008 (876 words)

	United Nations Volunteers: UNDP Associate Administrator visits UN Volunteers
		For Ad Melkert this visit to the United Nations Campus in Bonn, was a brief trip back in time.
		As a volunteer himself at the beginning of his career, Ad Melkert spoke of the virtues of volunteerism as a basic construct for societies, highlighting the special contribution that volunteerism can make to development and the achievement of the MDGs.
		Indeed it is imperative under the new Strategic Plan (2008-2011) to maximize the contribution of UNV in all four-focus areas of the plan: poverty reduction and the MDGs, democratic governance, environment and sustainable development, and crisis prevention and recovery.
	www.unv.org /en/news-resources/news/doc/undp-associate-administrator-visits.html (580 words)

	EU Referendum: European politicians v. Wolfowitz
		The ad hoc committee that was supposed to decide whether Wolfowitz has acted unethically is dominated by Europeans most of whom are former politicians and they decided before hearing either him or Ms Riza that he was guilty, despite the evidence, and had to go.
		Melkert has played an especially craven role by running from his own responsibility in the case.
		Melkert claims he was an innocent bystander who knew nothing about Ms.
	eureferendum.blogspot.com /2007/04/european-politicians-v-wolfowitz.html (538 words)

	American Thinker Blog: The man going after Wolfowitz
		Since the chief antagonist of Paul Wolfowitz on the matter of the settlement is Ad Melkert then head of the World Bank's Ethics Committee, readers might be interested in knowing what he is up to now.
		Melkert's incongruous talk but no action on issues of ethics at UNDP since he has essentially run the agency.
		Neither Ad Melkert nor Kemal Dervis have filed the Financial Disclosure forms which Ban Ki-moon and other top UN officials have filed, and which Mr.
	www.americanthinker.com /blog/2007/05/the_man_going_after_wolfowitz.html (860 words)

	YouTube - Fortuyn Vs. Melkert 10:0
		melkert, wat een vreselijke houding heeft ie hier.
		De reden waarom Melkert zo "gespannen" was, was omdat Pim Fortuyn op de hoogte was gebracht van Melkert's S&M voorkeuren, en dat Pim hem daarop zou aanspreken.
		Melkert was daar erg zwak, maar wees eerlijk Fortuyn was ook geen lieverdje, hij zit aan één stuk door te jennen en provoceren.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=xd6EcsLNY-I (666 words)

	FOXNews.com - U.N. Anti-Poverty Agency Official Stonewalling U.S. Request for Information on North Korean Payments - ...
		Now the acerbic Melkert seems to be involved in another highly personal battle, as the UNDP official who has most vocally defended his organization as having done no wrong — but who also, it seems, has been issuing threats against the U.S. government in closed-door meetings over the North Korea affair.
		The UNDP’s position, strongly articulated by Melkert, is that UNDP did nothing wrong, and that the audit supports that contention, no matter what the actual language of the report seems to indicate.
		At a meeting this week of UNDP’s 36-nation executive board, Melkert personally declared again that the audit “found no evidence that UNDP funding was diverted to the North Korean regime” and blamed such accusations on the press.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,283075,00.html (1706 words)

	The Purging of Paul Wolfowitz: an absurd non-scandal might cost the World Bank president his job \| Jewcy.com
		Melkert, a Dutch political figure active in the Labor Party in the Netherlands, said that instead of arranging for the salary and promotion package, Mr.
		February 28, 2006 – Letter from Ethics Committee Chairman Ad Melkert to PW “Dear Paul, This is to inform you that the Ethics Committee has reviewed two emails from ‘John Smith’ dated January 21, 2006 and February 15, 2006, respectively, which were sent to the Bank’s Investigations Hotline and copied to the Executive Directors.
		Interestingly enough, in Melkert's case, the big bad neocon used to be regarded with some favor—that is, until Melkert's own judgment as a World Bank functionary became subject to scrutiny.
	www.jewcy.com /daily_shvitz/wolfowitz_and_the_world_bank (6527 words)

	United Nations Development Programme
		Ad Melkert UN Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of UNDP will visit Kosovo during 8 and 9 July 2007.
		Melkert, in a pool of journalists organized by UNDP.
		Melkert, who earlier served as a member of the Board of Directors at the World Bank will come to Kosovo after visiting FYR of Macedonia.
	www.kosovo.undp.org /?cid=2,26,220&tpl=gallery.php (471 words)

	UNDP \| Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
		That was the message conveyed by Ad Melkert, UN Under-Secretary General and Associate Administrator for UNDP, in Minsk to attend an international conference marking the 20th anniversary of the nuclear accident.
		Melkert will also tour areas in the Gomel region affected by Chernobyl and visit a Project Fair organized by the Belarus Chernobyl Committee, UNDP, Swiss Development Cooperation, and the World Bank.
		Melkert ended his remarks saying, "We are confident that Chernobyl has entered the right development path.
	europeandcis.undp.org /index.cfm?menu=p_article&articleID=315 (464 words)

	World Bank ethics chief disputes Wolfowitz claims - Boston.com
		In his statement, Melkert said he decided to speak out when those speaking for Wolfowitz "were intent on continuing to spread erroneous information" about the ethics panel.
		Melkert, the Dutch government's representative to the bank's board at the time, vowed he personally acted in "good faith" in trying to resolve the issue, saying he wanted to save the institution from "a confrontational and embarrassing situation" over its newly minted president.
		Melkert said the ethics panel was not consulted, nor did it approve, the terms and conditions of Riza's transfer, which included a "large initial pay increase."
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2007/05/01/wolfowitz_issue_highlights_bank_selection_process?mode=PF (662 words)

	AP Wire \| 01/20/2007 \| U.S. says U.N. agency aided N. Korea (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The use of hard currency was approved by the agency's executive board, he said, adding that UNDP would welcome an external audit and would ask the board to approve it when it meets here next week.
		Melkert said that by March 1, all hard currency payments to the government, national partners, local staff and suppliers would be replaced by payments in North Korean won.
		UNDP's Melkert said the agency was operating in North Korea in an environment reminiscent of the Cold War when many communist bloc countries selected staff employed by U.N. agencies, which often operated under severe financial and travel restrictions.
	www.dfw.com /mld/dfw/news/breaking_news/16502517.htm (855 words)

	IS - Wereldbankier Ad Melkert (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ad Melkert, Nederlands bewindvoerder bij dé Bank, wimpelt de kritiek af.
		Hij doet dat namens een kiesgroep waarin, naast Nederland, ook een dozijn andere landen zitten, van Israël tot Georgië.
		Melkert is niet onder de indruk van het betoog van de Tanzaniaanse jurist.
	www.minbuza.nl /isonline/nl/archief/2004/01,wereldbankier_ad_melkert.html (2005 words)

	Former ethics chief disputes Wolfowitz claims - Financial Times - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ad Melkert, the former chairman of the World Bank's ethics committee, on Tuesday challenged key parts of the testimony given by Paul Wolfowitz, the president, and his lawyers to the panel investigating the Shaha Riza case.
		Mr Melkert said the ethics committee advised Mr Wolfowitz that Ms Riza should be relocated to a position "beyond the supervising influence of the president" to satisfy bank conflict of interest rules.
		However, Mr Melkert made clear the committee saw a promotion as being the compensation for her career upheaval and did not advise any other compensation.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/18427045 (476 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)