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At
UNSC, As
Abelian Is
Promoted Out,
Eyes on Ong,
Transparency
Needed
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 28 --
There will be
a vacancy atop
the UN's
Security
Council
Affairs
Division, now
that Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon has
promoted
Movses Abelian
to the
Assistant
Secretary-General
position in
the Department
of General
Assembly and
Conference
Management
vacated by
Catherine
Pollard. So
who will fill
it?
A
possible
candidate
several
sources have
independently
and
exclusively
named to Inner
City Press is
Kelvin Ong,
currently
Chief of the
Security
Council's
Sanctions
Branch.
Ban's
press release
identified
Abelian as
“born in
Armenia and a
national of
Georgia” -
clumsily, as
it turns out,
as he is a
dual national
and is taking
at the ASG
position as an
Armenian. He
was previously
Armenia's
Permanent
Representative
to the UN. Why
Ban emphasized
the Georgia
connection is
not known.
We note that
“Highlights of
Security
Council
Practice 2015”
contains data
about the
topics of the
Council's “Any
Other
Business”
meetings. But
we will be
pushing for
increased
transparency,
including on
such nitty
gritty issues
as how and by
whom it is
decided which
media can
accompany
Council trips
like the
recent one to
Burundi, going
forward. Watch
this site.
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