By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, April 27 -- In a UN announcement about Yemen on Saturday morning the other shoe dropped and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon named Ismael Ould Cheikh Ahmed to replace Jamal Benomar as envoy. Then on Monday, the UN Security Council heard Benomar's last briefing; Russia's Ambassador Churkin spoke to the ...

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, April 4, with video -- Amid complaints by Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross that they can't get medical aid into Yemen, an urgent UN Security Council meeting began on Saturday April 4 at 11 am, on a proposal for "humanitarian pauses" -- and ...

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, March 16 -- Before the UN Security Council voted to extend the mandate of its Afghanistan mission for a year on March 16, Afghan Ambassador Zahir Tanin stopped and told the Press that it's time for his government to be central to the coordination of aid in the country. ...

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, March 3 -- After the UN's Yemen envoy Jamal Benomar briefed the UN Security Council on March 3, new Council president for the month Francois Delattre of France came out to the stakeout. First he read "Elements to the Press," including: "We heard a briefing from Jamal Benomar, the ...

By Matthew Russell Lee, E-10 andn InnerCityPro Exclusive Inner City Pro has put the full text online here: UNITED NATIONS, February 25 -- When a draft resolution was circulated on February 24 to the UN Security Council which would set up a South Sudan sanctions committee, wire reports focused on the views of the Western Permanent Three ...

  By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive UNITED NATIONS, February 22-- Amid the violence in Bangladesh,Inner City Pro has repeatedly asked the UN how it reviews whether the military personnel is uses from Bangladesh have not been involved in human rights violations. February 5 video; now from the UN's February 20 transcript: Inner City Press:  I wanted to ask ...

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, February 18, more here -- The UN, after ousting Tarek Mitri as envoy in favor of Bernardino Leon, has been promoting its good works in Geneva and in the country.   On February 18, speaking before the foreign ministers of Libya (Tobruk) and Egypt, Leon again cited his own ...

By Matthew Russell Lee, for InnerCityPro UNITED NATIONS, February 17 -- When the UN's envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura came to the Security Council on February 17, it was his first briefing since October 30. This time, he took no questions, instead trying to clarify comments he made about Assad being "part of the ...

By Matthew Russell Lee, for InnerCityPro.com UNITED NATIONS, February 16 --The North Korean mission to the UN held a press conference at its office on Second Avenue on President's Day, when the UN was closed. The purpose was to go public with the opposition of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the “Conference on ...