The United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services, or OIOS, is a United Nations organ whose primary purpose is to perform world-wide audit, investigation, inspection, programme monitoring, evaluation and consulting services to the United Nations Secretariat and the rest of the United Nations System[1]. The agency was established in 1994[2]. Its first leader was Under Secretary General Karl Paschke. U.S. Representative Harold Rogers hoped that OIOS would be a "junkyard dog, not a household pet." In a speech given May 11, 1995, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright called the agency a "junkyard puppy."
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