On
North Korea, China Meets
Guterres As Sweden Revises
Statement, Tillerson Effect
By Matthew
Russell Lee, New
Platform
UNITED NATIONS,
April 28 – After the North Korea
meeting of the UN Security
Council on April 28, China's
Foreign Minister Wang Yi went up
to meet with Secretary General
Antonio Guterres and his team.
Inner City Press went to the
photo op - here
are its photos of Wang Yi
at the stakeout - and found
(Tweeted photos here)
the whole Guterres team in
attendance: Deputy Secretary
General Amina J. Mohammed, Chef
de Cabinet Maria Luiza Ribeiro
Viotti, holdover head of
Political Affairs Jeff Feltman,
Tanguy Stehelin, Kung-hwa Kang
and more. Periscope video here.
Guterres had barely said that he
will be in Beijing soon when the
Press was ushered out. At the
day's noon briefing, when Inner
City Press asked Guterres' (and
Ban Ki-moon's and Kofi Annan's)
spokesman Stephane Dujarric if
Guterres agrees with Tillerson
that countries should suspend
diplomatic relations with North
Korea, Dujarric refused to give
a straight answer. Tillerson
will be upstairs at 3 pm - and
so will Inner City Press. Watch
this site. When Tillerson spoke
on North Korea in the UN
Security Council on April 28, he
called on countries to break
diplomatic relations with the
country. As speeches continued,
the UN sent out Sweden's speech,
which included a line:
"diplomatic relations
constitutes the basis for our
efforts and must be upheld in
accordance with the Vienna
Convention." See
Patreon here. Then the UN
sent out a "revised" Swedish
speech with the line about
upholding diplomat relations
removed. Also Patreon here. Call
it the Tillerson effect. Some
background: when Sweden got
involved in an "Elected Ten"
draft on Syria, the US sources
tell Inner City Press questioned
the move. Did that play any role
in Sweden's "revised" speech?
We'll have more on this.
China's Wang Yi, who
spoke at the Council stakeout
before the meeting differed
(Inner City Press Periscope
here). He proposed
suspension for suspension.
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