UN
Disarmament Chief Nakamitsu
Heads to Sweden UNSC Retreat, Of
OPCW and Bach
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Scoop
UNITED NATIONS,
April 19 – The UN Security
Council is headed for a
retreat in Sweden, accompanied
by UN Secretary General and,
Inner City Press can report,
UN Disarmament chief Izumi
Nakamitsu, on the issues
of Douma and the Organization
for the Prevention of Chemical
Weapons. Inner City Press ran
into Nakamitsu after she had a
meeting preparing for the
retreat with Guterres and his
Political
(some say,
Cameroon)
adviser
Khassim
Diagne. The UN
Secretariat has
yet to release
a list of the
officials
it is bringing
to the
retreat, so this
report is a
scoop-lette.
Sweden's
Deputy
Ambassador
Carl Skau's
joke the
previous day
about making
the Council
members sit
silent and
listen to
music, perhaps
Bach as Dag
Hammarskjold
famously did,
came up. But
what music?
Inner City
Press is
covering this.
At 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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