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Article: Arbitration Panel Sides With U.N.
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- July 9, 1999
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NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
07-09-1999
Arbitration Panel Sides With U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- An arbitration panel on Friday rejected a Canadian air transport company's $50 million claim that the United Nations unfairly blocked it from bidding on U.N. contracts, but found ``serious flaws'' in the way the U.N. did business.
SkyLink Aviation Inc., of Toronto said it was satisfied with the ruling because it blamed the U.N.'s internal oversight office for incompetence in accusing the company of wrongdoing and suspending it from the bidding process.
``For us the whole thing was a matter of getting our credibility back after being suspended,'' SkyLink Manager Jan Ottens ...