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Malcorra
on W. Sahara,
Eliasson on
Yemen, Heyzer
at the Altar,
Who'll Replace
Ban?
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 16 --
When UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
chief of staff
Susana
Malcorra
visited
Venezuela and
Guyana this
month, the UN
sent out a
statement
describing her
trip about the
border
controversy
between the
two countries.
But when
Malcorra went
earlier this
year to
Morocco and to
the Tindouf
camps, on the
topic of
Western
Sahara, no
such statement
was sent out.
Some wondered,
since the UN
already has an
envoy on
Western
Sahara,
Christopher
Ross, why
Malcorra
traveled
there.
Well-place UN
sources
exclusively
tell Inner
City Press of
jockeying for
position as
Ban Ki-moon
enters his
final year,
saying both
Malcorra and
Ban's Deputy
Secretary
General,
recently on a
similarly
duplicative
trip to Saudi
Arabia and
Iran, harbor
dreams of
replacing Ban.
The
sources tell
Inner City
Press that
Malcorra was
slated to
leave New York
for Geneva,
with
Singapore's
Noeleen Heyzer
to become
Ban's chief of
staff, when
the host
country had
second
thoughts.
Malcorra was
asked to stay
on, first
until June,
and now
continuing.
She took on a
more political
and visible
role. Some say
the host
country favors
her for
Secretary
General, while
they could
“live with”
Irina Bokova.
The game, they
say, is on.
Inner City
Press at the
beginning of
October asked
the month's UN
Security
Council
President
Spain why
there is no
Western Sahara
meeting this
month, as has
taken place in
other recent
Octobers. It
was explained
as due to Ross
traveling to
the region -
which was
visited by
Malcorra
previously.
Who is
undercutting
whom? And who
speaks for the
UN on Yemen:
envoy Ould
Cheikh Ahmad -
send to be
arranging a
deal for his
native
Mauritania to
lend troops to
Saudi Arabia -
or Ban's
deputy
Eliasson?
Watch this
site.
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