Inner City Press

Inner City Press -- Investigative Reporting From the Inner City to Wall Street to the United Nations

These reports are usually available through Google News and on Lexis-Nexis

Google
  Search innercitypress.com Search WWW (censored?)

In Other Media-eg AJE, FP, Georgia, NYT Azerbaijan, CSM Click here to contact us     .

,



Follow us on TWITTER

Home -

These reports are usually available through Google News and on Lexis-Nexis

CONTRIBUTE

ICP on YouTube

BloggingHeads.tv

UN: Sri Lanka

VoA: NYCLU

Google, Asked at UN About Censorship, Moved to Censor the Questioner, Sources Say, Blaming UN - Update - Editorial

Support this work by buying this book

Click on cover for secure site orders

also includes "Toxic Credit in the Global Inner City"
 

 

 


Community
Reinvestment

Bank Beat

Freedom of Information
 

How to Contact Us



At UN, Palestine Takes Its Seat for Geographical Names, Over US Protest

By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive

UNITED NATIONS, July 31 -- The question of Palestine, including its status and where to seat it, arose Tuesday in the the meeting of the UN Group of Experts no Geographical Names.

  Following Palestine's joining UNESCO as a full member, it followed suit as Inner City Press reported at the Law of the Sea, to which the US is not a party.

  In early July Palestine asserted the same right regarding the Arms Trade Treaty talks, as first reported by Inner City Press. But after much back and forth, under the resulting compromise Palestine sat in the front row beside the Holy See.

  For the Geographical Names meeting, in which Palestine wants to raise a number of "re-namings" by Israel, there were three "loud" speakers against its seat: the US, Canada and Israel. Egypt spoke against the three and in support of Palestine.

The Palestinian delegation exclusively told Inner City Press about a report they submitted on contested names -- they didn't just show up for the seat -- as did Syria regarding the Golan. Talk turned to the Saudi drafted General Assembly resolution on Syria, on which there are informal consultations later on Tuesday, with a Thursday voted slated. Watch this site.

Footnote: being named from the podium as participating on Geographic Names was none other than Google: Google at the UN.

Share |

* * *

These reports are usually also available through Google News and on Lexis-Nexis.

Click here for Sept 26, 2011 New Yorker on Inner City Press at UN

Click for  BloggingHeads.tv re Libya, Sri Lanka, UN Corruption

Feedback: Editorial [at] innercitypress.com

UN Office: S-253, UN, NY 10017 USA Tel: 212-963-1439

Reporter's mobile (and weekends): 718-716-3540

Google
  Search innercitypress.com  Search WWW (censored?)

Other, earlier Inner City Press are listed here, and some are available in the ProQuest service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.

            Copyright 2006-2012 Inner City Press, Inc. To request reprint or other permission, e-contact Editorial [at] innercitypress.com