On Burundi, After UN Spox Dodges On “Famine” In Leaked Email, This Read-Out of UNSC Briefing

UNITED NATIONS, November 8 (InnerCityPro.com) -- Hours after UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric told ICP the UN does not use the word "famine" in connection with Burundi, at least not publicly, and after a question and answer session that never happened, the UN issued this, which ICPro published in full: Statement on the Security Council briefing ...

Germany’s Braun on Complex Libya & Yemen, Burundi Pressure, China’s DPRK Surprise

By Matthew Russell Lee for InnerCityPro.com UNITED NATIONS, January 21 -- Germany is running again for UN Security Council for 2019-20. By the election in 2018, the 2015 Person of the Year award to Chancellor Angela Merkel from TIME Magazine may have faded in memory. Still, its economy is larger than the two other European ...

After Burundi Meeting of UNSC, UK’s Rycroft Tells ICP Ten CSOs Discussed, Trip Timing: Q&A and Press Elements Here

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, November 30 -- As killings in Burundi increased, on November 12, the Security Council adopted a belated resolution on Burundi. (Inner City Press put the full text online here, and here in French.) The resolution called for the UN Secretariat to report back to the Council, on November 30. Some time ...

On South Sudan, ICP Asked Why UN Not in Leer Amid Deaths, UK PR Rycroft Says Discussed

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, October 26 -- Whom is the UN in South Sudan protecting? What are its priorities? On October 26, Inner City Pressasked UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric about Leer, below. On November 4, after the UN Security Council's closed door consultations with UNMISS chief Ellen Loj, Inner City Press asked Council President ...

As Spain Heads UNSC, Inner City Pro Asks of Libya Draft, Any Burundi Envoy, No Western Sahara Meeting: #SpainSCpres

  By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, October 5 -- Spain holds the Presidency of the UN Security Council for October; Inner City Press asked its Permanent Representative Roman Oyarzun Marchesi on October 5 about the pending Libya resolution, the still non-existent UN envoy to Burundi and why there's no Western Sahara briefing on the Program of Work, as there ...

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On Burundi, Ban Ki-moon Is Asked Again to Replace UN Mediator Djinnit, Letter Here and Translated by InnerCityPro

  By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, June 8 -- Nineteen days after the UN Security Council, the United States and the UN Peacebuilding Configuration on Burundi on May 15 issued statements urging calm in the country given the return of Pierre Nkurunziza to presumably run for a third term, on May 29 Inner City Press asked UN spokesman ...

IMF Tells Inner City Pro “No Time Line” on Yemen or Burundi, Is Nepal “Qualified” for IMF Relief?

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 28, updated -- On the day Yemen talks were supposed to resume in Geneva, but were canceled by the UN, Inner City Pro asked the International Monetary Fund for the status of its program. IMF spokesperson William Murray read out the question -- "on Yemen, given the cancellation ...