Lithuania
Counters
Serbian
Contest for
PGA via OSCE,
Peru for
Disarmament?
Of GRULAC and
Crying Wolff
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 7 --
The next
President of
the UN General
Assembly
will be from
the Eastern
European
group, by the
rotation
system
prevalent in
the UN. There
are two
candidates:
Serbia's
Foreign
Minister Vuk
Jeremic, and
Lithuania's
Permanent
Representative
Dalius
Cekuolis. But
now, Inner
City Press is
told, the
battle has
expanded.
Sources
in the
Eastern
European group
say that since
1967, there
has never been
a
contested
election and
vote within
the group, as
was avoided by
withdrawal in
last
year's clash
in the Asia
group in which
rising power
Qatar beat out
Nepal amid
charges that
the election
was "bought."
Here,
there's
grumbling that
Lithuania has
been "in line"
for the
position for
some years.
Now that
Serbia's
Jeremic has
decided to
challenge,
sources tell
Inner City
Press,
Lithuania has
moved to
"break
silence" on
Serbia coming
to head the
OSCE in 2014.
Tit for
tat, as they
call it. Or
leverage for a
deal? Watch
this site.
Vuk
Jeremic &
Portugal's
Portas, broken
silence on
OSCE not shown
In
other "Perm
Rep on the
move" news,
Inner City
Press is told
the Peru's
current
Permanent
Representative
Enrique
Roman-Morey
gunning for
the
Disarmament
post being
vacated by
Duarte of
Brazil.
(c) UN Photo
Ban Ki-moon
shakes with
Roman-Morey:
Disarmament in
play?
Outgoing Under
Secretary
General for
Management
Angela Kane
has also been
mentioned
for the post,
but others say
she's bound
for the UN
Economic
Commission on
Europe.
A difficulty
for
Roman-Morey,
sources tell
Inner City
Press, is that
if as ICP has
reported
fellow
GRULAC-er
Susana
Malcorra gets
the Deputy
Secretary
General post
from Asha-Rose
Migiro, the
"non-Japanese
Asians" will,
if Japan keeps
DPI or gets
OCHA, want
another post:
like
Disarmament.
And,
for the
record,
sources close
to Alejandro
Wolff now tell
Inner City
Press he
will NOT come
back to New
York to head
the Department
of Political
Affairs. It's
said it was
Ban Ki-moon,
and not the
Obama
administration,
which pulled
in his name
alongside that
of Jane Holl
Lute. Watch
this site.
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