As
ICP Asks France of Sanctions
Proposal by Egypt, Sisi Media
Akhbar al Yom Absent Again
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
August 3 – When Egypt's
Ambassador Amr Abdellatif
Aboulatta, President of the UN
Security Council for August,
held a press conference on
August 2, Inner City Press
asked him about Egypt's debate
on August 3 and its draft
resolution to provide more
oversight of UN sanctions
teams. Video here.
On August 3, Inner City Press
asked French Ambassador
Francois Delattre, as
transcribed by the French
mission: Inner City Press: Are
you opposed or favorable to
work on the impact of
sanctions? Amb Delattre: "By
definition, we are open minded
on everything that can
increase the effectiveness of
this key tool of the Security
Council." We'll see. Not seen
at the Security Council
stakeout for Egypt's meeting,
nor in the day's noon
briefing, was Egypt state
media Akhbar al Yom, to whose
Saana Youssef, a past
president of the UN
Correspondents Association,
the UN is purporting to give
Inner City Press' long time
office, leaving it restricted
for covering UN corruption. On
the morning of August 3, being
pitched, Delattre was heard to
say We love UNCA - the very
group involved
in this censorship.
UN experts asserted Egyptian
military sales to South Sudan,
as Inner City Press first
reported. On Libya, he praised
Haftar's presence at President
Macron's meeting and said that
new UN envoy Salame, with whom
it met, will soon visit
Tripoli, Cairo and Italy
(which was left out of
Macron's and Salame's show).
We note that Egypt state media
Akhbar al Yom, to whose
emeritus correspondent Saana
Youssef the UN is trying to
give Inner City Press' long
time office and leave it
restricted from covering the
General Assembly without a
minder, wasn't even present.
We'll have more on this. The
day before on August 1 when
new Russian Ambassador to the
UN Vassily Nebenzia emerged
from Egypt's Security Council
Program of Work meeting, Inner
City Press asked him about the
incoming President of the
Council's proposals on
sanctions, and he answered.
Inner City Press: Egypt had a
proposal about sanctions to
have a working group to look
at the impact of sanctions.
What does Russia think of the
proposal?
Amb Nebenzia:
We are discussing the
resolution on that which is
still in the Council. It has
not been agreed upon yet. We
have ideas about sanctions.
You know that we are victims
of illegitimate sanctions. Of
course, any sanctions that the
Security Council adopts – this
is the limit of it. The
Security Council is the only
legitimate international body
at all to come up with
sanctions. We do not want to
see extra sanctions on top of
those adopted by the Security
Council.
Inner City Press streamed
Periscope of the interchange,
and the Russian Mission
included it in its transcript,
unlike most recently the UK
which censored Inner City
Press' questions - and
Ambassador Rycroft's answer --
on Cyprus, here.
We'll have more on this.
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