Yemen
SC Vote
Conflicts With
GA, Portugal
Says, Nobel
Winner Banned?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 21 --
While the
Security
Council set 3
pm Friday for
the vote on
its Yemen
resolution,
Portugal has
contested the
timing,
Inner City
Press has
learned, out
of respect for
the General
Assembly.
In
the General
Assembly the
morning's
voting for
Security
Council seats
bled over
into the
afternoon,
even after
Togo beat
Mauritania for
the remaining
African seat.
Azerbaijan and
Slovenia were
set to face
off against
3:30.
On
that basis,
Portugal said
it would be
wrong for
Security
Council to
disrespect
the General
Assembly.
Another
Council member
told Inner
City Press
that the
United Kingdom
was adamant
about still
holding the
vote.
Portuguese
Permanent
Representative
Cabral has
said, when he
joined the
Security
Council, that
he would stick
up for the
General
Assembly.
On this he has
followed
through - a
reason to have
non-permanent
members, and a
model on this
for incoming
members.
Nobel
Peace Prize
winner Karman,
anticipating
the vote, is
understood to
have asked the
Office of the
Spokesperson
for Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon for
permission to
hold a press
conference,
but was
reportedly
told, only
if a member
state sponsors
it.
That
may be an
unwritten
rule, but the
same Office of
the
Spokesperson
has refused
in the past to
tell Inner
City Press
which member
state
sponsored
particular
press
conferences by
non-governmental
organizations
or
former prize
winners.
Now they've
cited the rule
against the
current
Nobel Peace
Prize winner
who wanted to
hold a press
conference to
speak against
immunity, as
provided by
the Gulf
Cooperation
Council's
initiative on
Yemen.
Karman on Oct
18, Oct 21 to
come, (c)
MRLee
And
so Ms. Karman
will be signed
into the UN as
a guest, so
that her voice
and the
voice of those
she represents
can be heard.
Watch this
site.
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