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On Kosovo at UN, Kumanovo in FYROM Cited, and “Insinuations Regarding the Unification of Albania and Kosovo”

May

26

2015

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 26 -- The Kosovo representative of the UN Farid Zarif, when he briefed the UN Security Council on May 26, had a long paragraph about delay in trying "cases arising from the finding of the EU Special Investigative Task Force" -- without mentioning the underlying organ trafficking. Meanwhile ...

Yemen’s PR Alyemany Says “More Force” on Houthis, Quotes Ban’s New Envoy; UNSC Elements to the Press

May

20

2015

By Matthew Russell Lee, for InnerCityPro.com UNITED NATIONS, May 20, updated with UNSC Elements to the Press -- The UN's bungling of Yemen mediation has become ever more clear, according to multiple sources and documents exclusively seen by Inner City Press. On May 6, Inner City Press reported how UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accepted US ...

On TPP, Inner City Pro Asks UN’s Hong, He Calls It & T-TIP “Discriminatory, Step Backward”

May

19

2015

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 19 -- Just as US Secretary of State John Kerry gave a speech in Washington State promoting the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership, Inner City Pro in New York asked UN official Pingfan Hong for the UN's view of the TPP. Pingfan Hong said that TPP would ...

ICC’s Bensouda Answers Inner City Pro on Central African Republic, Palestine, Libya, Transcript Here

May

12

2015

By Matthew Russell Lee for InnerCityPro.com UNITED NATIONS, May 12 -- After International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda briefed the UN Security Council about Libya on May 12, she emerged from the Chamber and agreed to answer some questions; Inner City Press asked some, starting with the Central African Republic. Because it was not at the ...

On Western Sahara, Explanations of Vote by Angola, Venezuela and China Raise Questions of Self-Determination, Colonialism, Human Rights, AU

Apr

28

2015

By Matthew Russell Lee, for InnerCityPro.com UNITED NATIONS, April 28 -- The UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, MINURSO, which has yet to hold any referendum, was unanimously "renewed" for a year on April 28 by the UN Security Council. Inner City Press is publishing Explanation(s) of Vote. Venezuela said human rights monitoring ...

On Yemen, Russia’s UN Ambassador on How Near Deal Was Before Saudi Air Strikes: Off Camera Quotes

Apr

27

2015

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 ...

On Yemen, Push on GCC Draft in UN Security Council, US Didn’t Raise Evacuations

Apr

6

2015

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 ...

On Yemen IDP Camp Attacked, US Tells ICP Parties Should Minimize Harm; IMF Postpones Review of Program

Mar

30

2015

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, March 30, updated with video -- Amid continued airstrikes in Yemen, on March 30 came reports of an airstrike on an internally displaced persons camp in Haradh. Inner City Press immediately sought confirmation (and comment) from the UN, and then from the US State Department. From the State Department ...

As Afghanistan Tells UN It Wants to Coordinate Its Own Aid, Envoy Haysom Speaks to Taliban, and On ISIL

Mar

16

2015

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. ...

On Yemen, UNSC President Read These “Elements to the Press” Then Said $60B Saleh Was “Not Central” to Discussions

Mar

3

2015

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 ...