By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS: As a spiraling financial crisis threatens to undermine the United Nations’ day-to-day operations worldwide, a proposal being kicked around outside the empty corridors of the UN, has triggered the question: will senior officials, including the secretary general, the deputy secretary general and undersecretaries-general; 60 heads of UN agencies, funds and programs; and assistant secretaries-general volunteer to take salary cuts — even as a symbolic gesture?

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