Derviş to quit as UNDP chief
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Hurriyet Daily News
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Ocak 10, 2009 00:00
ISTANBUL - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has accepted the resignation of Kemal Derviş, who headed the U.N. Development Program, or UNDP, the organization that works to reduce poverty around the globe, according to the Associated Press.
There are reports that Derviş will run for the Istanbul Municipality for the opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, in the upcoming local elections. Although it is alleged he has denied the rumors. Derviş’s term of office with the UNDP was due to end in July 2009, but he was quoted saying he would not run for a second term and would leave the post March 1.
The United Nations said Thursday that Derviş, who was the administrator of the United Nation's global development network since August 2005, told Ban that his decision was "entirely due to personal and family reasons." Derviş told his close friends that he did not know what he would do, but that he was interested in academic studies about Turkish and world economies, the Anatolia news agency reported.
As a senior official of the World Bank, Derviş was in Turkey in 2001 to assist the Turkish government with fixing the destructive effects of the economic crisis and he was finance minister during Turkey's recovery program. Derviş worked closely with the prime minister at the time, Bülent Ecevit, whom he had worked with in the past as an adviser.
The United Nations said Thursday that Derviş, who was the administrator of the United Nation's global development network since August 2005, told Ban that his decision was "entirely due to personal and family reasons." Derviş told his close friends that he did not know what he would do, but that he was interested in academic studies about Turkish and world economies, the Anatolia news agency reported.
As a senior official of the World Bank, Derviş was in Turkey in 2001 to assist the Turkish government with fixing the destructive effects of the economic crisis and he was finance minister during Turkey's recovery program. Derviş worked closely with the prime minister at the time, Bülent Ecevit, whom he had worked with in the past as an adviser.