In November 1990, Lapointe was fired as Secretary-General of CITES. In March 1993, The U.N. Judicial System called this decision “arbitrary and capricious” and demanded that the Secretary-General of the United Nations recognise the high value of Lapointe’s services to CITES. Read the case and decision in full in the following two PDFs:
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