Yemen
Banned from UN
Vote as Saleh
Crony Empties
Mission's BofA
Account
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 7 --
Just after
Yemen's
Mission to the
United Nations
wrote a
$223,675 check
to the UN for
its 2012 due
on June 20,
its Ali
Saleh-aligned
Permanent
Representative
wrote himself
a cashier's
check on the
Mission's Bank
of America
account, Arab
diplomatic
sources have
exclusively
told Inner
City Press.
The
impact was
that during
the August 3
UN General
Assembly vote
to
condemn
Syria's Bashar
al Assad, the
move of this
Ali Saleh
supporter
made it so
that Yemen
could not
vote, despite
being a
co-sponsor of
the
resolution.
While
some media
mocked Yemen
for sponsoring
and not
voting, Inner
City
Press reported
even that day
that Yemen was
barred from
voting by the
UN's
pay-to-vote
rules. But
afterward
Inner City
Press learned
the
reason for the
failure to
pay.
The
Yemeni
mission's Bank
of America
Operating
Account, ACT
R/T
054001204,
delivered its
$223,675.00
check to the
UN's
Contribution
and Policy
Coordination
Service on the
28th floor of
the UN-rented
building at
380 Madison
Avenue.
But
simultaneously,
the
Saleh-aligned
Permanent
Representative
was
withdrawing
the money so
the check
would bounce.
Some might
consider
this a crime.
But a
self-described
Arab diplomat
tells Inner
City
Press of
"the
cheap game
played by the
Permanent
Representative
and his
Foreign
Minister who
still follow
the overthrown
dictator, he
withdrew the
whole account
after issuing
a check so the
UN check will
bounce so
Yemen can't
vote."
And
so it goes at
the UN with
the Arab
Spring. Watch
this site.
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