Sweden
Pays Costs For All 15 UN
Security Council Members'
Retreat on Dag's Farm, SG Team
Uses Public Funds
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video here
UNITED NATIONS,
April 18 – The UN Security
Council has an annual retreat,
usually close to New York City
on Long Island. This weekend,
the fifteen Council members
and UN Secretary General
Antonio Guterres and an
undisclosed number of UN staff
are flying to Sweden for the
retreat. As an April 18 press
conference Inner City Press
asked what seemed an obvious
journalistic question: who's
paying? Video here.
Sweden's
Deputy Ambassador Carl Skau
replied that Sweden will be
paying for all of the Security
Council members. And Guterres?
Skau said the costs of
Guterres and his team - again,
size and composition
undisclosed - will be borne by
the UN, that is to say,
the public. He used a
state visit to Stockholm to
justify this.
Inner City
Press asked, did any Security
Council member offer to pay
its own costs? No, it seems.
So Sweden will pay for all
countries on the divided
Security Council. So Swedes
know? Skau told Inner City
Press the financial
expenditure is “on the
website.” But it does not seem
to be on this one, entitled
“Sweden and the UN in
Figures.”
Soon it
was argued no harm no foul.
But could smaller countries
elected to the Security
Council afford to compete with
Sweden? We'll have more on
this - and on the retreat.
Watch this site.
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