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UN Diplomat 'too busy' to check rules

Dutch News

January 14, 2008

Diplomat Eveline Herfkens was too busy with her job to check whether United Nations were being broken by her Dutch housing allowance, the former minister says in Monday’s NRC Handelsblad.

The Dutch state paid $280,000 towards Herfkens New York flat . ‘Who would think the Dutch government would break the rules?’ the paper quoted Herfkens as saying.

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UN Diplomat 'too busy' to check rules

Dutch News

January 14, 2008

January 2008 News

01/31/08

Reuters

01/30/08

By Matthew Russell Lee

Inner City Press

01/30/08

By Editorial

Pittsburg Tribune-Review

01/30/08

By Eric Reeves

Christian Science Monitor

01/30/08

By Steven Edwards

Canwest News Service

01/30/08

By Edwin J. Bernard

aidsmap

01/29/08

By BRIDGET JOHNSON

Los Angeles Daily News

01/29/08

By Matthew Russell Lee

Inner City Press

01/29/08

By Brett D. Schaefer

Heritage Foundation

01/28/08

By Editorial

Wall Street Journal

01/26/08

By Brett D. Schaefer and Steven Groves

Heritage Foundation

01/25/08

Association of Free Press

01/25/08

By Benny Avni

New York Sun

01/25/08

By Brett D. Schaefer

National Review

01/24/08

BBC News

01/15/08

By Richard Edwards

European Leaders In Procurement Blog

01/15/08

By Harvey Morris

Financial Times

01/15/08

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Chronicle of Higher Education

01/14/08

By John Stanton

Roll Call

01/14/08

By REVIEW & OUTLOOK Editors

01/14/08

Radio Netherlands Worldwide

01/14/08

AP

01/14/08

By BENNY AVNI

New York Sun

01/14/08

By George Russell

Fox News

01/11/08

SR International

01/11/08

By Perro de Jong

Radio Netherlands Worldwide

01/11/08

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