When Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations, picked Shashi Tharoor for a cabinet-level position in 2001, he sent a clear message to the public with his unconventional decision.
Earlier today Mark Davis spoke with UN Under Secretary Shashi Tharoor about the prospects of reconciliation between the US and the other members of the UN.
Critics of the Bush administration policy on Iraq, since it drafted a UN resolution this week, regard its sudden interest in obtaining significant United Nations support for post-war redevelopment as a classic case of eating crow.
A Q&A with Shashi Tharoor: The argument for the United Nations
07/September/2003
In what was widely seen as an effort at midcourse correction, the Bush administration last week decided to seek broader help in Iraq from the United Nations
Shashi Tharoor was appointed UN Undersecretary-General for Communications and Public Information as of June 2002. In this capacity, he manages the external communications and media relations of the UN.
Writer Shashi Tharoor was educated in India and later took a PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. For more than 20 years he has had a double career