UNITED NATIONS, July 16 — As the UN Pension Board meeting ended on July 13 without acting on CEO Bernard Cocheme’s recommendation to be given more power, Cocheme stopped in the UN basement hallways and spoke with Inner City Press for an hour. Cocheme began with two questions. “Why do you write so negatively about me? Why do you call one of my three recommendations to the board a ‘coup’? That word has special meaning in the UN.”
