UNITED NATIONS, July 30 (InnerCityPro.com) -- The day after US Ambassador Samantha Power told the UN Security Council to stay on alert over the weekend due to reports of violence in the Equatorias in South Sudan, on July 30 the US issued the statement below. It refers to the UN counting rapes -- but says ...

UNITED NATIONS, July 22 (InnerCityPro.com) -- After the UN Security Council held two meetings about Libya on July 22, the second one featuring an "Explanation of Vote" speech by Boris Johnson, below (and ICP video here), later on July 22 the Council issued this Press Statement: "The members of the Security Council welcomed the 16-17 ...

UNITED NATIONS, July 17 (InnerCityPro.com) -- On South Sudan, where the UN is described as unable to protect civilians and, as shown by leaks to ICP, is willing to engage in cover ups, the US has offered this statement: "The United States wants to reassure the people and the government of South Sudan that we are not planning, nor will plan, ...

UNITED NATIONS, July 15 (InnerCityPro.com) -- On Turkey, as US President Obama and others spoke of supporting an elected government, there was nothing from Ban Ki-moon. Ban's deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq doled out a quote to his favored media, but nothing else. Ban's (non) position in Egypt - and what he's done for Egyptian state ...

UNITED NATIONS, July 15 (InnerCityPro.com) -- On the situation in Turkey, US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday evening issued the statement below. Some said Ban Ki-moon had spoken, while Ban's Office of the Spokesperson had tweeted or emailed nothing out, and spokesman Stephane Dujarric blocks journalists who are critical. Lter it emerged that ...

UNITED NATIONS, July 15 (InnerCityPro.com) -- On a Friday just before 5 pm in New York the UN Security Council churned out a Press Statement on the DR Congo, on which France "has the pen" in the Council. The progress, if any, of France's drafts on Burundi is not known. Here was an interview outside ...

UNITED NATIONS, July 14 (InnerCityPro.com) -- Hours after the attack in Nice, the French Mission tweeted that the UN Security Council had issued a Press Statement of condemnation, which we publish below. President of the General Assembly Mogens Lykketoft issued a statement; several candidates to replace Ban Ki-moon tweeted their condemnation. From Ban, still nothing ...

By Matthew Russell Lee, for InnerCityPro.com UNITED NATIONS, July 12 (InnerCityPro.com)  -- Before ten candidates for Next UN Secretary General were asked questions in a General Assembly Hall given over to Al Jazeera, Inner City Press asked the UN and the President of the General Assembly (PGA) why there was no UNTV stakeout in front ...

UNITED NATIONS, July 12 (InnerCityPro.com) -- The International Organization for Migration weighed in on South Sudan on Monday, but did not address the UN closing its gates in WAU while an UNcounted number were killed outside. The IOM is not fully in the UN system, but is reticent to criticize the UN when it makes ...

UNITED NATIONS, July 12 (InnerCityPro.com) -- The UN  High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has issued a statement lightly covering the closing of the border between South Sudan and Uganda, but not addressed the UN closing the gates of its camp in Wau as people were killed outside, an issue on which Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ...