For
UNSC Seats Vietnam 192 Niger 191
Tunisia 191 St Vincent 185 and
Estonia 132 in 2d Round But For
What
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, June 7 – The
day before the
elections for
five new
members of the
increasingly
dubious UN
Security
Council to be held
in the UN General
Assembly
several of whose
recent
Presidents
took bribes
from CEFC China
Energy and Ng
Lap Seng, El
Salvador
announced
itself as an
alternative to
St Vincent and
the Grenadines
for the GRULAC seat.
Inner
City Press,
banned from
entering the
UN by UNSG
Antonio
Guterres amid
its reporting
on CEFC and
Guterres'
financial
links to the
group, has objected
the GRULAC and
El Salvador
letters and
put them
online here.
On
June 7 St Vincent
and the
Grenadines won
the seat 185
to 6. Viet Nam
got 192 unopposed. Niger
and Tunisia
each got 191
unopposed.
Only Estonia
111 - Romania 78
went to a
second round,
which Estonia
won 132-58. But
what of the
UNSC's failings,
for example
on Cameroon
where a belated
meeting served
as little more
than a greenlight for
genocide?
On May
13 the UNSC held
a belated
session about
Cameroon,
albeit an
informal one with
no expected
outcome and
notably not
co-sponsored
by veto
holding colonial
power France,
hypocrisy and
cover
up of the UN's
failure are
evident,
including among EU
members
Germany and
Belgium both of
which
refused to
answer basic Press
questions.
But what about
the three
countries competing
for the two Security
Council seats
of the Western
European and
Other Group?
We'll start
with Canada:
"The Canadian
High
Commissioner
to Cameroon,
Nathalie
O'Neil
accompanied by
the Chargé
d'Affaires at
the High
Commission of
Great Britain
and Northern
Ireland to
Cameroon, on
their part,
were at the
Ministry of
External
Relations to
invite Came
roon for the
World Press
Freedom
Conference
that will take
place in
London on July
10 and 11,
2019. The
event will be
jointly
organized by
the United
Kingdom of
Great Britain
and Northern
Ireland and
Canada." Can
you say, tone
deaf
hypocrisy? The
other two
candidates are
and
aforementioned
Ireland and
Norway, on which
we'll have
more.
No such
comparisons
can be made
for the next
President of the UN
General
Assembly, a
position that
has repeatedly
fallen to
Chinese
bribery. There
is only one
candidate, Nigeria's
Prof. Tijani
Mohammed-Bande, as
bragged about
here
by "Ms
Monica
Gravley,
spokesperson
to the
President of
the outgoing
73rd UNGA, Ms
Maria
Espinosa" - that's
Garces, and
actually, Grayley, misreported
by fully UN
accredited and
officed NAN
(which Inner
City Press and
FUNCA defended
against ouster,
before being
ousted now 314
days). And
isn't it
Muhammad Bande?
We'll
have more on
this.
The May
13 UNSC Arria
meeting ended
without any
outcome, after
Paul Biya's
longtime
Ambassador
Tommo Monthe
lashed out at
social media as UNSG
Antonio Guterres
does. Monthe
told Inner
City Press, as
it asked about Biya
cutting
the Internet
in the Anglophone
zones, that Inner
City Press
could get
thrown out of
the UN. And
it was, by
Guterres, now
313 days and
counting.
In the
meeting, China
said the Biya can
impose law and
order - Xinjiang
style,
some wondered,
through Guterres'
alliance with
China is even
larger, including
as their CEFC
China Energy
tried to buy the
oil company of
Gulbekian
Foundation which
paid Guterres.
France's
Francois
Delattre said his
country will
work with
Biya.
The EU's
João Vale de
Almeida, who tweeted
a selfie with
Monthe
before the
meeting
assuring him
the EU would
be support, came
through. He
and the EU Mission
have done
nothing about
Guterres' open
censorship.
These people
are killing
the UN.
(Inner
City Press
went and began
interested at
the Ambazonia
/ Southern Cameroons
demonstration
in the 47th
Street
park, in the
rain,
video here.)
More
here.
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