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On Libya, ICP Asks Kobler of Haftar and Ganfouda in Benghazi, UNSC Press Elements Here

Feb

2017

UNITED NATIONS, February 8 (InnerCityPro.com) -- After the UN Security Council met about Libya on February 8, agreed on Press Elements were read out (below) and UN SRSG Martin Kobler took questions. Inner City Press asked him about General Haftar and the Ganfouda area in Benghazi, video here. And here are the Council's agreed Press ...

On Libya, UN Security Council Churns Out Press Statement Day After Kobler Briefing & Press Q&A, Here

Dec

2016

UNITED NATIONS, December 7 (InnerCityPro.com) -- The UN Security Council at 7 pm on December 7 issued a Press Statement on Libya, below, the day after hearing from SRSG Martin Kobler. Inner City Press on December 6 asked Kobler about the letter by now-former Libyan Ambassador to the UN Ibrahim Dabbashi, video here. Now here's ...

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

Jan

2016

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 ...

On Libya, Venezuela Says Why Abstained From EU / “High Seas”Resolution, Transcribed Here

Oct

2015

By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive series UNITED NATIONS, October 9 -- On October 9, the delayed Libya / High Seas resolution was approved in the UN Security Council, with Venezuela abstaining. Venezuela's Rafael Ramirez said military action is not the solution, and that the wider problem should be dealt with in the UN General Assembly. ...

Libya Writes to UNSC It Is OK “High Seas” Resolution, Full Text Here

Oct

2015

By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive series UNITED NATIONS, October 8 -- With the EU's Federica Mogherini in the UN for General Assembly week, Inner City Press tried and ultimately succeeded to ask her about EU NAVFOR MED Phase II, and how it would start without UN Security Council approval on which the Council's three African members have concerns. On October ...

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

Oct

2015

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 ...

On Libya, Inner City Pro Asks UNSC President of Dabbashi’s Critique, Failures Forgotten for South Sudan

Aug

2015

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, August 26, more here -- After the UN's envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon briefed the UN Security Council about his political agreement still without the Tripoli-based General National Congress, and Libya's Ibrahim Dabbashi chided Council members about Al Qaeda, the Security Council agreed on Elements to the Press read ...

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

May

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 ...