Washington, October 05: An American ousted as the No. 2 official at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan says he has no second-thoughts about assertions that it failed to aggressively probe allegations of vote fraud in the August presidential election.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week fired Peter Galbraith as deputy envoy recently, although the U.N. chief didn’t say specifically what the differences were.
Interviewed Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Galbraith said his dismissal was over arguments about how the U.N. should proceed. Preliminary results show President Harmid Karzai won a majority, with former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah in second place. But proclamation of a winner has been delayed pending a partial recount by the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC).
–Agencies