For UN
Political
Post, Russia's
Titov & S.
Korea's Kim
Compete, ICP
Is Told
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 30 --
A currently
open top UN
job is
Assistant
Secretary
General for
Political
Affairs, under
US Jeffrey
Feltman. Inner
City Press is
exclusively
informed that
competing for
the post are
Kim Won-soo,
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's long
time senior
advisor, and
Russia's
Dmitry Titov.
Inner City
Press, always
greeting
Mister Kim in
the hall and
on January 29
in the
River Club
reception thrown
by Chile's UN
Mission,
is informed
that Kim would
like to follow
Ban back to
South Korea as
a possible
foreign
minister, but
wants to
re-establish
his profile
for that.
On the other
hand, of the
Permanent Five
members of the
Security
Council,
Russia may
have the
fewest UN
posts. France
owns UN
Peacekeeping,
the fourth in
a row being
Herve Ladsous
who refuses
all Press
questions. Videos here, here
(Jan 22) and
here
(Vine).
China
has DESA --
but, we hear,
still has a
candidate for
ASG of
DPA; the
US had DPA
through
Feltman. The
UK may be
losing
Humanitarian
Affairs - click
here for
Inner City
Press' latest
exclusive on
that --
but then
reaches out
for the top
envoy post in
Iraq. But
Russia?
Another way to
view it is,
the UN
Secretariat's
one-sidedness
on Ukarine,
between US
Feltman and
Croatian Ivan
Simonovic,
left the UN on
the sidelines
on the Ukraine
issue. Could
Titov as the
number two in
DPA turn that
around? It
could. Watch
this site.
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