What is at issue is how management reform proposals that would broaden the power of the secretary general's office are being pressed assertively by Mr. Bolton and aggravating tensions between the 191-member General Assembly, with its entrenched bureaucracy, and the office of the secretary general.
"It looks like it could be a real train wreck," said Edward Luck, a professor of international affairs at Columbia University and former president of the United Nations Association of the United States. "It's a basic clash over who's in charge: is it the General Assembly or is it the secretary general?"
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