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CWC: ILO Rules Bustani Improperly Dismissed From OPCW The U.N. International Labor Organization ruled last week that Jose Mauricio Bustani was wrongly dismissed last year as head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Charging him with mismanagement, the United States led the effort to unseat Bustani from the organization, which is responsible for implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention (see GSN, April 23, 2002). Bustani’s supporters have said the United States removed him because Bustani wanted Iraq to join the treaty, according to the Associated Press, a move that could have made it more difficult for the United States to go to war. The ILO ruled that Bustani was improperly dismissed and awarded him $56,700, to be paid by the OPCW, AP reported. The ILO said Bustani was not given a fair opportunity to respond to U.S. charges, according to a copy of the ruling obtained by AP. The lack of due process in Bustani’s dismissal was “an unacceptable violation of the principle on which international organizations’ activities are founded, by rendering officials vulnerable to pressures and to political change,” the ILO said. Bustani said the ruling was a “great relief” and that he planned to donate his award to an OPCW international cooperation program (see GSN, Jan. 9; Anthony Deutsch, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, July 21).
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