UNITED
NATIONS, April
5 -- As UN big
wigs gather
tellingly in
Europe, there
are several
elephants in
the room. The
hottest job in
the UN system,
envoy
to Mali, is
slated to go
to another
European,
Staffan De
Mistura.
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of April 3
from Inner
City Press.
European
are
on a roll in
Africa, at
least through
the UN of
Secretary
General
Ban Ki-moon.
He's given
Europeans the
top posts in
the Sahel,
Liberia,
Sierra Leone
and Cote
d'Ivoire --
Bert Koenders,
chilling
this week in
New York well
in advance of
today's
session of the
Advisory
Committee on
Administrative
and Budgetary
Questions.
Meanwhile,
the
UN Staff Union
in New York
has voted
“no
confidence” in
Ban
Ki-moon.
Who on the
Chief
Executives
Board will
dare ask about
it,
without
immediately
dismissing it
as somehow
proving Ban's
strong
leadership?
What
kind of a
leader calls
those who work
for him as
levels lower
that the CEB “selfish”?
Who will ask
that?
Just
as Ban's
advisers are
too timid or
self-interested
to ask him
tough
question, Ban
does not ask
his Under
Secretaries
General to
answer
critical
questions from
the Press.
Herve
Ladsous has
been allowed
to
openly refuse
to answer
Inner City
Press
questions, on
UN Television,
even having
the UNTV
microphone
seized to try
to avoid
questions
about rapes
in the Congo.
Video
here. Zero
tolerance
indeed.
On
March 18,
Inner City
Press' office
inside the UN
was raided,
without
notice or
consent, by
the Department
of Public
Information. Apres
raid video
here.
Either
they or those
they let in,
from the UN
Censorship
Alliance known
as
UNCA, took
photographs of
Inner City
Press' desk
and bookshelf
and
gave
them
anonymously to
BuzzFeed.com.
In fact, the
photos were leaked,
directly to
the BuzzFeed
reporter,
immediately
after Ban's
Spokesperson's
Office got a
call about the
raid from the
reporter. How
did that
happen?
Has
there been any
accountability,
for Ban's UN's
descent into
dictatorial
anti-press
tactics? Not
yet. DPI won't
even disclose
who it let
into the
Press' office.
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site.
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