Roland Rich: NED's man at the UN

NED's Larry Diamond (who is also a senior fellow at Hoover Institute) has suggested that India should begin promoting democracy in the global South, in a recent article. Somewhere in the article, which is quite interesting and I'll discuss it again later, he proposes that the UN Democracy Fund should help India perform this function:

If India were to establish an institution to coordinate and organise exchanges with democrats around the world, richer democracies in the world would want to join with it and help to fund it. And in the near term, we have a ready potential vehicle. The UN Democracy Fund has recently been established, with a substantial budget that includes sizable contributions from India and the United States. It is a natural candidate to provide early support for such a new initiative.

Don't be too surprised. The only reason NED can possibly endorse anything from the UN must be that they have their own guy there; and it's true.

The UN Democracy Fund's executive head, Roland Rich, is a former NED fellow in 2005 and from 1989 to 2005 he was the Foundation Director of the Centre for Democratic Institutions at the Australian National University. In 1997, Louisa Coan, NED's program officer for Asia, called it a 'sister' organization to NED in a testimony at the U.S. congress.

The more you dig into this NED, the uglier and filthier it gets. No wonder they say it is a front for the CIA. But they have now even infiltrated the UN. This is appalling.