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After Iraq bombing, UN wants 778 new security jobs UNITED NATIONS, Tuesday (Reuters) The United Nations proposed on Monday a major $97 million overhaul of its security system with 778 new posts, a response to devastating safety reports after the 2003 bombing of its offices in Iraq. In a report to the General Assembly, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the world body needed a new directorate of security, based in New York, to unify its myriad safety structures around the world. "A degree of risk cannot be avoided," he said. "The challenge is to mitigate it." The report did not give figures but U.N. sources said Annan, and his deputy, Louise Frechette, wanted to add 778 positions, including 33 in places where there are no security staff. Some 99 posts would be in New York. The cost of the new jobs as well as needed equipment would be $97 million. The current number of security staff was not immediately available. Such staff is decentralized among agencies, programs and various U.N. offices. A year ago, a panel headed by former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, accused the United Nations of a catalogue of security breaches that it said probably cost lives in the Aug. 19 bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. |
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