As
Jeremic Talks
Sovereignty,
What of Egypt
and Kosovo,
Budget
from Serbia?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 3 --
The UN seems
to make even
articulate
people
bland, and to
turn
everything
into buzzwords
and cliches.
So it
seemed at Vuk
Jeremic's
first press
conference as
President of
the UN
General
Assembly.
His deputy
spokesman
chose only
five question
-- by
the end of
which, the
obvious word
"Kosovo" had
not once
been said.
Only
on the seventh
and last
pre-drinks
questions was
the word
broached.
Jeremic
answered
indirectly,
saying that
just as he
fought "for
five and a
half years" as
Serbian
foreign
minister for
the
sovereignty
and
territorial
integrity of
Serbia, now he
would fight
for those
things for the
whole world.
Is that a
message to the
proponents of
Azawad in
Northern Mali?
Inner City
Press has
covered Mali's
on-again, then
off-again
recognition of
Kosovo.
More
pertinently,
is it true as
buzzed at the
UN that the
"new"
Egypt may move
to recognize
Kosovo? What
if anything
could a PGA
try
to do?
Inner
City Press
covered -- and
called
-- Jeremic's
election as
General
Assembly
President,
and when the
media in
Serbia
contacted it
for
stories about
Jeremic's
budget,
Inner City
Press also asked
Jeremic's
predecessor
how much Qatar
had spent
(this was
never
answered).
But
now one wants
to know if it
is true that
the request to
and
contribution
of Serbia is
down to $1.5
million, and
what the
actual
budgets of the
office will
be.
Wednesday
these
questions were
not
taken, nor
more generic
ones about
mediation and
the G-20. Team
Jeremic
offered drinks
and cheese
cubes to the
correspondents,
but
that time
might have
been better
spent on
answering
these
questions.
Perhaps in the
future they
will be
answered.
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