Sweden
Listed Burundi For Its Month But
No Follow Through, Yemen
Failure, Mali Exclusion
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
January 31 – When Sweden took
over Presidency of the UN
Security Council at the
beginning of January, Inner
City Press asked
its Ambassador Olof Skoog
about Burundi (as well as
Western Saharan and Myanmar).
On
Burundi, Skoog on January 3 told Inner
City Press it would come up in
the month, just that no date
has yet been set. This came
just after the assassination
of a minister and the UN
Budget Committee's non-funding
of even the personnel the UN
has tried, or said it is
trying, to send.
When
Sweden's month ended on January
31, Burundi had not come up
(nor had Myanmar.
Western
Sahara like Yemen
was the subject of the
meeting, but decided no
Security Council success or
even honesty).
After Skoog's
(surreal, all-praise) January
31 press conference, Periscope
video here, he came to
the small focus booth Inner
City Press works from, a year
after retaliatory eviction
by USG Cristina Gallach
for seeking to cover UN
corruption and a meeting
in the UN Press Briefing Room.
Inner City Press asked about
Burundi.
Skoog said
the plan had been to have
facilitator Mr. Mkapa come on
January 24 but that it had not
happened. He said he would ask
for it under Ukraine's
Presidency of the Council in
February. We'll see.
Also unanswered
(and not taken) - why was the
January meeting on Mali held
in an area of the which
non-resident correspondents,
the status to which Gallach in
retaliation for Press
questions on her links to the
Ng
Lap Seng UN bribery case,
cannot
reach without a minder?
The questions
taken were, as often happens
at the UN, full of nothing but
praise. This is one reason the
UN has not improved. We'll
have more on this. And Sweden
will have a second and last,
for these decades, chance in
14 months, and in between.
Watch this site.
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