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In UN
Decolonization
Comt'e, US
Absent On
Puerto Rico
& Vieques,
W. Sahara Next
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, June
22 -- With
Puerto Rico
the topic of
the UN's
Decolonization
Committee on
Monday
afternoon, the
outside
speakers cited
the inability
to vote for US
President to
the
environmental
destruction of
Vieques by US
bombs.
Afterward
member states
spoke,
including
Nicaragua on
the Monroe
Doctrine and
Sandino.
Cuba's
resolution was
brought up for
decision --
and passed
without a
vote.
Inner City
Press ran
downstairs to
basement
Conference
Room 3 as Cuba
was speaking
after the
vote.
Venezuela's
Permanent
Representative
was there,
along with his
Bolivian
counterpart
and others.
But the seat
of the United
States, like
those of
France and the
UK beside it,
were empty. Periscope
video for now
here.
“It's always
like this,”
one delegate
told Inner
City Press.
The UN is a
strange place.
(Cuba's
Deputy
Permanent
Representative
said that the
UN Department
of Public
Information
last Monday
said that
webcasting of
the Committee
was
guaranteed,
but this was
later brought
into question
as has been
raised to the
Free
UN Coalition
for Access.)
While
the
chairperson of
the meeting
said that the
agenda for
June 23 had
yet to be
decided, Inner
City Press had
heard it will
be Western
Sahara. In
that case, it
seems doubt
that Morocco
will follow
the US and
“just say no,”
not show up.
One
thing that may
be different
this year is
the
revelations in
the Morocco
cables leaked
by or on
“Chris
Coleman”
Twitter
account.
Earlier on
June 22, Inner
City Press
asked the UN
Spokesman who
it was in the
UN, who called
Anders Kompass
a
“sleaze-bag.”
Video
here.
We'll have
more on this.
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