At
UN,
Serbia Jeremic
Wins GA Race
over Lithuania
99 to 85,
Polling Was
Accurate
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
June 8 --
Serbia's Vuk
Jeremic was
elected the
next
President of
the UN General
Assembly on
Friday
morning, by a
secret
ballot vote of
over the
Lithuanian
Permanent
Representative.
Inner
City Press had
interviewed
Jeremic about
his race,
which some
called
"playing the
NAM card"
referring to
the
Non-Aligned
Movement.
Still, Jeremic
is if nothing
else energetic
and
articulate,
something
often lacking
in those who
hold this
post.
On
the eve of the
vote, an
International
Criminal
Court-minded
European
complained to
Inner City
Press that
"Serbia's
government
still
denies that
Srbrenica was
a genocide."
Inner City
Press asked,
and asks: Does
Vuk?
Among
those turning
out to vote
was Russia's
Permanent
Representative
Vitaly
Churkin,
Brazil's PR
Viotti,
Japan's PR
Nishida, the
PRs of,
among others,
Jamaica,
Grenada and
Venezuela,
India's PR and
Deputy
PR, and
seemingly at
the Deputy PR
level, the UK,
among others.
Lamberto
Zannier,
former head of
the UN Mission
in Kosovo and
now chief of
the
OSCE,
sauntered in.
One wondered,
to
congratulate
Jeremic? Or
its
opposite?
Before
the
vote,
based on
informal
polling, Inner
City Press tweeted
a
prediction:
Jeremic
winning with
97 votes.
Many laughed.
Then he won
with 99 votes.
Well, no one
is perfect.
This
prediction
must have been
from the worst
journalist at
the UN in the
last 20 years.
Watch this
site.
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