The
UN’s Independent Audit Advisory
Committee (IACC) isn’t playing along with the UN Pension Board’s attempt to
discredit the UN internal auditors as a ploy to disregard and circumvent
General Assembly directives.
UN
Pension Board members and the UN retiree representative organization, FAFICS, were
so incensed about the OIOS governance audit (A/73/341) called for by General
Assembly resolution A/RES/73/274, that they not only roundly rejected its
findings and recommendations in Rome in 2018, but also pushed to discredit the internal auditors
(UN Office of Internal Oversight Services, OIOS) and report them to the UN’s
Independent Audit Advisory Committee for alleged unprofessionalism -- “flawed and unprofessional” is the language contained in the Board’s report (page 72,
para. 345).
In a subsequent annex to the governance audit, OIOS roundly
refuted the Board’s allegations. It's difficult to recall a UN document
where the words "This statement is not true" appear once, let
alone several times, as is the case with OIOS responses to the Board's comments
on the governance audit. https://unpension.blogspot.com/2019/09/un-internal-auditors-oios-response-to.html
