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UNSC Elements After Coronavirus Meeting Has Lax UNMISS and UNDSS UNanswered

By Matthew Russell Lee, CJR PFT NY Post

UN GATE, April 9 – The UN Security Council in the second half of March 2020 did not hold a single publicly-viewable briefing or issuance of Press Elements, on South Sudan or any other site of a UN Peacekeeping mission.

  This as Inner City Press, which reports on  South Sudan for example is excluded by the UN Secretariat from getting promised answers - for example to this question it posed about a transcript leaked to it by UNMISS staff about lack of social distancing in transporting national staff, and now UNDSS keeping its gym open -- a censorship it passes on to UNSC Presidents including on April 1 the Dominican Republic's Jose Singer. And on April 9, here and here.

  Belatedly, not from the UN but a mission, the Elements to the (banned) Press: "The Security Council Discussed the COVID-19 Pandemic Through VTC   The Security Council held a closed video-conference on the “Impact of Covid 19 on the issues that fall under the Council’s mandate” on April 9, 2020, which was chaired by the President of the Council, H.E. Mr. Jose Singer.   The members of the Security Council were briefed by UN Secretary-General, Mr. Antonio Guterres.   The Members of the Security Council were briefed on the Secretary General’s appeal for a global ceasefire and on the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in United Nations’ humanitarian response as well as on the Organization’s Peacekeeping and Special Political Missions.      The Members of the Security Council also expressed their support for all efforts of the Secretary-General concerning the potential impact of COVID-19 pandemic to conflict-affected countries and recalled the need for unity and solidarity with all those affected."

  Nevertheless for now we publish these squibs from the UNSC "closed VTC" on COVID-19, our approach always begins open, then modifies based on how the UN acts: "Statement by Ambassador Jonathan Allen, UK Chargé d’Affaires to the UN, at a meeting of the Security Council on the impact of COVID-19     Thank you very much, Jose. Thank you, Secretary-General, for briefing us today. And let me join others in welcoming our new colleague from Tunisia. In different times we sit next to each other in the chamber and I look forward to that opportunity soon.  Let me start, if I may, by just saying a few words about how the UK is approaching some of the initial phases of this crisis. It is the biggest health emergency in generations, and the UK's work with our allies is focusing on four initial points, which we encourage others also to support. And they are the increasing of the resilience of vulnerable health systems. And we've announced so far $670 million in aid." We'll have more as more comes in.

 

On November 7 Inner City Press asked the IMF (which unlike the UN Secretariat answers it): "On Equatorial Guinea, what is the status (and dollar volume) of the IMF's consideration of a program, and the weighing if at all on the length of time Obiang has been in power? "The loan, the amount of which has not been revealed, is scheduled to be considered by the IMF executive board in December."

 From the IMF's November 7 transcript, with video on page: "There's another question from Matthew, which I'll take on Equatorial Guinea, asking what's the status and the volume of the IMF's consideration of a program for Equatorial Guinea and the weighing, if at all, length of time that President Obiang has been in power."

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