UNITED NATIONS, March 10: The 5,000-member United Nations Staff Union on Thursday adopted a resolution expressing ‘no confidence in Secretary General Kofi Annan and his top management team after he unveiled plans to overhaul the world body.

A motion ‘to express a statement of no-confidence in the secretary-general and his senior management team was opposed by just two of the UN employees attending a closed-door emergency meeting of the staff union.

On Tuesday Mr Annan had introduced a 33-page report on management reform that proposed outsourcing some UN work or moving staff out of the United States for some translation services, document production, printing and publishing and information technology.