At G20, IMF’s Lagarde Talks Up Quota Reform and Expansion of SDR Basket, ICP’s Qs to IMF

At G20, IMF's Lagarde Talks Up Quota Reform and Expansion of SDR Basket, ICP's Qs to IMF
UNITED NATIONS, September 5 (InnerCityPro.com) -- After the Group of 20 Summit in Hangzhou, China, the International Monetary Fund's Christine Lagarde said that "G20 leaders welcomed the entry-into-effect of the IMF's 14th review of quota reforms [and] also welcomed the inclusion of the Renminbi into the SDR (Special Drawing Right) currency basket as of October ...

UNSC Issues Press Statement on Guinea Bissau, Urges ECOWAS Presidential Mission to Visit Bissau

UNITED NATIONS, September 4 (InnerCityPro.com) -- The UN Security Council, five days after a closed door consultation on Guinea Bissau after which there was no explanatory stakeout session, has now on Sunday issued the Press Statement below, through the UN Spokesperson seven minutes before this publication: Security Council Press Statement on Guinea-Bissau The members of ...

On Syria, De Mistura Issues Statement Day After Kerry – Lavrov, Echo of Ban Ki-moon Son in Law Hired by de Mistura

UNITED NATIONS, August 27 (InnerCityPro.com) -- While UN Envoy Staffan de Mistura was slated to appear with John Kerry Sergey Lavrov in Geneva, he did not. Instead the next day, today, he issued the statement below. Meanwhile de Mistura's previous hiring of Ban Ki-moon's son in law Siddarth Chatterjee is echoed by Chatterjee's promotion to ...

On Burundi, After UN Mis-Direction on Mayuyu, Adviser Dieng Slams Genocide Talk, Here

UNITED NATIONS, August 24 (InnerCityPro.com) -- Hours after the UN belatedly confirmed to ICP it had deployed and is now repatriating Burundi's Lt Col Alfred Mayuyu from its Mission in Central African Republic, the UN's Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide issued this statement: " The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama ...

On Yemen, UN Ban Ki-moon After Dropping Saudi From Kid Killer List Expresses Alarm at Airstrike, And Attack From Yemen on Najran

UNITED NATIONS, August 17 (InnerCityPro.com) - After dropping Saudi Arabia from the UN's Children and Armed Conflict annex on Yemen, Ban Ki-moon on August 17 cranked out another statement expressing concern about the conflict -- after a junket to Los Angeles and Calgary, Ban remains "on leave." Here is his statement: "The Secretary-General is alarmed ...

After Saudi Coalition Bombs MSF in Yemen, Belated Comment from Ban Ki-moon Who Dropped Saudis from Kid Killer List

UNITED NATIONS, August 15 (InnerCityPro.com) -- Long after the Saudi led Coalition bombed MSF in Yemen, and eight hours after being asked about it, Ban Ki-moon's spokesman belatedly commented without addressing how or why Ban dropped the Saudi led Coalition from the Children and Armed Conflict annex on Yemen. Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric told Inner ...

After Saudi Coalition Kills More Kids in Yemen, Belated Comment from Ban Ki-moon Who Dropped Saudis from Kid Killer List

UNITED NATIONS, August 14 (InnerCityPro.com) -- Long after the Saudi led Coalition killed children in a school in Yemen, after comments by even a US Representative, Ban Ki-moon belatedly commented without addressing how or why he dropped the Saudi led Coalition from the Children and Armed Conflict annex on Yemen. Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric told ...

UNSC Issues Statement on Deadly Attacks in Mali on Peacekeepers, Two-Tier DPKO Not Yet Addressed

UNITED NATIONS, August 8 (InnerCityPro.com) -- While the UN Security Council on August 8 issued a press statement about deadly attacks on UN peacekeepers in Mali, below as drafted by France, it has not addressed the pattern of UN Peacekeeping under Herve Ladsous operating "two tier" missions. As ICP has reported on UN Peacekeeping's unseemly ...

UN Drops Other Shoe on Yemen Talks, After Ban Ki-moon Sells Out to Saudi

UNITED NATIONS, August 6 (InnerCityPro.com) - On Yemen and the UN's failed talks, aligned as it is with Saudi Arabia to which Ban Ki-moon literally sold out, the other shoe has dropped. Today "UN" envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed issued this: Statement of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for Yemen, Ismail Ould ...

After Ban Drops Saudi From Kid Killer List, Says He’s Careful, Won’t Answer Press

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, August 2 (InnerCityPro.com) -- The UN Secretariat of Ban Ki-moon's bungling of Yemen mediation has become ever more clear, according to multiple sources and documents exclusively seen by Inner City Press, see below. Now Ban's bungling and worse have become more public. He put Saudi Arabia on the annex ...