On
Lebanon, ICP
Asks UN Kaag
Of Aoun's
Hezbollah
Support &
Trump, Saudis;
MaleSG
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 10 --
The day after
Hillary
Clinton
conceded to
Donald Trump
as the next US
President, on
November 10
Inner City
Press asked
the UN's envoy
to Lebanon
Sigrid Kaag
how she
thought the
incoming Trump
administration,
and the
Saudis, will
view and act
on Hezbollah's
support for
new Lebanese
President
Michel Aoun. Video here.
Kaag
said she
wouldn't
speculate but
that Lebanon's
is not an
executive
president,
that Prime
Minister
Hariri will
play a large
and presumably
paliative, to
Trump and
Saudi Arabia,
role in
Lebanese
decision
making. (Seems
Inner City
Press is
blocked from
Kaag's
Twitter, as
from the
tweets of Ban
Ki-moon's son
in law, UN
Resident
Coordinator in
Kenya. Is
Ban's
censorship
syndrome
spreading?)
Inner
City Press
also asked
Kaag if she is
disappointed
that there has
still never
been a
woman... UN
Secretary
General. She
laughed and
called Antonio
Guterres the
best person
for the job,
committed to
general
parity, and
added that
yes, she has
met him.
Perhaps a
daily schedule
of the
incoming
Secretary
General - and
US President -
should be
published, the
Free
UN Coalition
for Access opines.
When
Inner City
Press got to
the United
Nations on the
morning of
November 9, it
asked Yemen's
Ambassador
Khaled Hussein
Mohamed
Alyemany if he
thinks under
Trump the US
will continue
to fuel up
Saudi
warplanes for
their bombing
runs. Video
here.
Inner City
Press asked
Iraq's
Ambassador to
the UN M A
Alhakim about
the idea
outgoing
President
Obama will try
to speed up
action on
Mosul and
Raqqa before
Trump takes
over. He said
a sped-up
process would
be good. Vine
video here.
Outgoing UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon came
to read a
statement; his
outgoing
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric said
Ban would not
take
questions. But
one was yelled
out on climate
change; Inner
City Press
then asked
about the criticism
of Ban by
Senator Bob
Corker, a
possible
Secretary of
State, over
Ban's weak
response to UN
peacekeepers'
engaged in
sexual abuse.
Video
here;Vine here.
In New York
City early on
the evening of
November 8,
from the UN on
First Avenue
to Trump Tower
and the
Peninsula
Hotel on Fifth
Avenue (Inner
City Press' Periscope video here),
the assumption
was that
Hilary Clinton
would win.
Then Ohio then
Florida then
finally
Pennsylvania
went Trump.
And at 3 am on
November 9,
after a
concession
call but not
speech by
Hilary
Clinton, Trump
declared
victory (and
compared
Reince to the
bronze statue
of the horse
Secretariat at
Belmont race
track). Now
what?
Some predict
John Bolton as
Secretary of
State. On TV,
they talk of
Newt. More
nitty gritty
some wonder if
someone like
Brett Schaefer
might be UN
Ambasssador.
(The current
UN Ambassador
prepared for a
victory party
- there are
still no post-
or mid-results
photos to
mirror those
from the
Javitz
Center).
In Seoul,
South Korea
issued
statements;
from Ban
Ki-moon,
wannabe South
Korean
president,
there was
nothing yet.
Earlier a
Permanent
Representative
told Inner
City Press,
gesturing at
the UN campus,
If Trump wins,
this is all
over. We shall
cover it, in
detail. Watch
this site.
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