At
UN, Inner City Press Asks Amb
Nebenzia
About Egypt's
Proposal on
Sanctions,
Here
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
August 1 – When new Russian
Ambassador to the UN Vassily
Nebenzia emerged from his
first Security Council Program
of Work meeting on August 1,
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. There
are other hypocrisies: back on
February 26 [unmasker]
Samantha Power used the death
of Vitaly Churkin to (try to)
show what an open minded
person she is. It came a month
after she and her portrait -
it has still not been replaced
- left the US Mission to the
UN, and six weeks after she
said the indictments of Ban
Ki-moon's brother and nephew
for using the UN to sell real
estate "have
nothing to do with the UN."
(Power also scoffed at the UN
bringing cholera
to Haiti.)
Power wrote that she was
saddened -- that she was
criticized for crocodile
tears, calling Churkin a
"deeply caring man" after
having demanded publicly if he
wasn't even "a little bit
creeped out" by the type of
killing of children she said
nothing about in Yemen. (Her
hypocrisy on Yemen continues,
as now she is unmasked as the
unmasker.)
Power
quoted what Susan Rice told
her, fine; she recounted a
Churkin e-mail, apparently to
show how she worked him. She
told stories apparently to
show "deep caring," not by
Churkin but by herself, taking
Ambassadors to Shakespeare in
the Park and Churkin to her
parents house in Yonkers. Oh
the humanity!
There are
those in the UN who liked
Samantha Power for what they
think she stood for. By the
same token, Power and the
Obama administration were
unrelentingly defenders of the
UN for what they said it stood
for. But were either right?
On January
13 Samantha Power took up the
UN Press Briefing Room for
more than an hour to extol her
and Obama's virtues. Her
outgoing spokesman called
early on two US Voice of
America affiliates.
Between
questions, Inner City Press
asked, What about the
indictment of Ban Ki-moon's
brother and nephew? Tweeted
video here.
Power
looked over and said, “I don't
have any comment. It's not
something that involves the
UN.”
Well, no.
The indictment by the US
Attorney's Office says Ban's
nephew repeatedly cited his
family's access to the Amir of
Qatar to help selling a
building in Vietnam. Ban knew
of this for at least a year
and a half. Any UN OIOS
investigation? But Samantha
Power was never about
reforming the UN.
Inner City Press asked, What
about Haiti cholera? Power
smirked / shrugged, and her
spokesman moved on. So the UN
bringing cholera to Haiti and
killing 10,000 people, not
paying a penny - that "is not
something that involves the
UN?" We'll have more on this.
When
the UN killed 10,000 plus
people in Haiti by bringing
cholera, what did the Obama
administration do? The issue
wasn't even mentioned in
Power's 8000 plus word Exit
Memo. Nor was Burundi or
Yemen, where US-made cluster
bombs have been dropped on
schools and hospitals. A
problem from hell, indeed.
Power
and her Deputy Permanent
Representative for Management
and Reform Isobel Coleman have
said nothing about the
indictment for bribery of Ban
Ki-moon's brother and nephew for
using the UN, nor about the John
Ashe / Ng Lap Seng UN bribery
case that has resulted in six
guilty verdicts. We'll have more
on this.
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