From Yemen, Day After Envoy IOCA Refused Saudi Bomb Qs, Ansar Allah Calls Him Biased

UNITED NATIONS, November 1 (InnerCityPro.com) -- The day after Ban Ki-moon's envoy on Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed refused, twice, to answer Press questions on the US and UK arming the Saudi-led Coalition and the US refueling the Saudi warplane, now from Sana'a comes this statement from Ansar Allah about this envoy, first machine translated ...

From Yemen, National Delegation’s Response to UN Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed’s proposed roadmap

UNITED NATIONS, October 30 (InnerCityPro.com) -- Amid renewed airstrikes on Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition, days after Saudi Arabia was re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council with 152 votes of the 193 member states, here below is a "Response of the National Delegation" as obtained by InnerCityPro.com, machine-translated then the original Arabic: Issued by ...

On Yemen, Envoy IOCA Has Another Ceasefire Announcement, As Churkin Tells ICP UK Should Seek Sana’a No-Fly Zone

UNITED NATIONS, October 17 (InnerCityPro.com) -- After responses on Yemen from the UK's Matthew Rycroft (who said the Saudi self-investigation of the funeral bombing is still ongoing) and Russia's Vitaly Churkin (who told ICP he hoped the UK draft resolution on Yemen has a no-fly zone for Sana'a, like the one being sought for Aleppo ...

On Yemen, In London Kerry Praises Saudi Humanitarians, US Welcomes Arab Coalition’s Self-Investigation of Funeral Bombing

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 16 (InnerCityPro.com) -- Here's transcript of UK, US and UN envoy on  Yemen in London - while both the US and UK "welcome" the Saudis' self-investigation of the double tap airstrikes on the funeral in Sana'a: BoJo: Thank you.  Good afternoon, everybody.  Thank you very much for coming to Lancaster House.  As ...

On Burundi, Where Nkurunziza Snubs UNSC & Quits ICC, Here’s What UN Special Adviser Said

UNITED NATIONS, October 13, 2016 -- Before Inner City Press asked him about the ICC, genocide and the Mkapa process, there was this, which we put immediately online: From the Office of Mr. Jamal Benomar, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General for Conflict Prevention, on his briefing to the Security Council  13 October 2016, New York ...

On Refugees ICP Asks Why 7 NGOs BANned, Lykketoft Says Those Are The Rules

By Matthew Russell Lee   UNITED NATIONS, September 19 -- As the UN's summit on refugees and migrants began, Inner City Press asked the organizer, President of the General Assembly's 70th session Mogens Lykketoft, why seven non-governmental organizations had been BANned from participating.Periscope video here; UN letter here. Lykketoft said, in essence, those are the (UN) ...

For UNGA, Ban Ki-moon Prints Vanity Book on His Own Legacy, But Who Wrote & Paid For It?

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, September 18 -- As Ban Ki-moon's time at the UN winds down and he prepares coyly to run for President in South Korea, his packaging of his legacy has become a vanity amateur operation. Take for example the hard cover book on his conference table when he met on September 18 with Donald Tusk, President, ...

In NextSG Race, Helen Clark with NAM and Ban’s Son in Law, Vuk’s Grandma and Guterres Seems To Tweet

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, September 18 -- Nearly all of the current candidates to replace Ban Ki-moon as UN Secretary General, and those who have dropped out, are active or at least have accounts on Twitter. Now Antonio Guterres, ahead in the straw polls but with “Discourages” which may well include a Russian ...

On North Korea’s Nuclear Test, Here is UN Security Council’s Sept 9 Press Statement

UNITED NATIONS, September 9 (InnerCityPro.com) - After a closed door meeting of the Security Council about North Korea's nuclear test, the Press Statement below was read out by the month's President, New Zealand. Since an hour later the Office of the Spokesperson of the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had yet to issue it, InnerCityPro.com publishes ...

On Yemen, A Full Week After Envoy’s UNSC Briefing, A Council Press Statement Amid Saudi Airstrikes

UNITED NATIONS, September 8 (InnerCityPro.com) -- More than a week after the UN Security Council got a briefing from "UN" Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, and after yet more airstrikes on Yemen by the Saudi-led Coalition, the Security Council after-hours on September 8 issued the Press Statement below. In the interim, Inner City Press ...