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 ...

From Ramallah, Ban Ki-moon “Pessimistic,” ICP Asked Palestine’s Mansour of Int’l Force

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, October 21 -- After UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke by video to the UN Security Council's 15 Permanent Representatives, meeting behind closed doors, the PRs of the UK and Russia both said that Ban was not optimistic. UK Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, filmed here on Periscope by Inner City Press, said, ...