| In Run
Up to UNGA
Talk of AI and
NY Traffic
Across 1st
Avenue, Echoes
of Ashe
UNreformed
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, Sept 12
– With UN General Assembly
week approaching, a former
president, a former UN Deputy
Secretary General and a former
UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights spoke on a panel across
First Avenue, at the
International Peace Institute,
on September 12. Inner City
Press was there and tweeted, here
and here.
It began
with new President of the
General Assembly Dennis
Francis reading a speech -
this as he and his
spokesperson Monica Grayley
have refused for two days to
answer the Press why they have
not
complied with the
minimal reform the UN
committed to after PGA John
Ashe was indicted in SDNY
court for bribe taking.
Then
former Deputy Secretary
General Mark Malloch-Brown
summarized a report that was
available on the way in, and
gently mock New Yorkers who
will complain about the
traffic the UN brings.
What about the
impunity, for example the
Ambassador who not long ago
raped a woman and then flew
out of the country, entirely
legally immune?
Former
Liberia President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf mentioned AI,
as did current Costa Rica
Ambassador Maritza Chan,
citing a meeting about
autonomous weapons held in
Trinidad and Tobago, the
homeland of PGA Dennis
Francis.
There are other connections
between IPI and the SDNY
court, where Ghislaine Maxwell
was convicted at trial and her
partner / IPI donor would have
been - but it is not our
purpose here to go there.
In fact, going to
IPI from a full day of court
coverage wasn't easy, but IPI
is to be commended for at
least not simply falling in
line with the thin-skinned
censorship regime of UNSG
Antonio Guterres.
But shouldn't
they, and their CEO with human
rights credentials, do more?
Watch this site.
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