On North Korea, ICPro on Reason for Delay of UNSC Resolution, Upcoming DPRK Human Rights Session

Analysis, Must Credit ICPro UNITED NATIONS, November 23 (InnerCityPro.com) -- Amid predictions that the long pending North Korea draft resolution will be put to a vote in the UN Security Council next week, InnerCityPro can today report the following: The draft is “with the P5,” the five Permanent Members of the Council, but Japan and ...

UNSC Issues Press Statement on Wau, South Sudan, Akuei Bona Malwal Replaces Francis Deng As PR

  By Matthew Russell Lee for InnerCityPro.com UNITED NATIONS, July 1 (InnerCityPro.com) -- The UN Security Council belatedly issued a Press Statement on Friday about the killings in Wau, South Sudan. The statement did not say how many civilians were killed, nor explain why the UNMISS mission did not open the gates to its camp. ...

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 ...

Egypt Tells UN Security Council It Should Lift the Arms Embargo on Cote d’Ivoire, Review in March

By Matthew Russell Lee, for InnerCityPro.com UNITED NATIONS, January 20 -- The UN Security Council today unanimous adopted a resolution on Cote d'Ivoire which while reducing ONUCI's military force from 5,437 to 4,000 did not lift the arms embargo on the country. After the vote there was only one speaker, Egypt, transcribed here by InnerCityPro: ...

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

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

  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 ...

After UNSC Meets on Mali & Burkina Faso, Spain’s Summary, Inner City Pro 2 Questions

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, October 5 -- Spain holds the Presidency of the UN Security Council for October; Inner City Press for the Free UN Coalition for Access asked its Permanent Representative Roman Oyarzun Marchesi to when possible provide summaries of closed door consultations and take questions.  On October 6, two summaries were provided and ...

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 ...

India PM Modi for UN Peacekeeping Summit Wants More Say For Troop Contributing Countries, G4 Sept 26, Waldorf Q&A

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, September 23 --  India has been the largest contributor to UN Peacekeeping -- 185,000 troops in 44 of the UN's total of 69 missions -- so Inner City Press on September 23 at the Waldorf Astoria after the arrival of Indian Prime Minister Modi asked what India is looking ...