Brexit's UN Fall-Out, UK Less Likely to Veto Malcorra, Scottish P5 Q? 

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, June 24 -- With the world awash in Brexit punditry, how will the UK vote to leave the EU impact the UN? Ban Ki-moon came out with a wishy-washy statement from his meeting with six ad agencies in Cannes, linking the EU with humanitarian and the UK with development.

   The UK's Stephen O'Brien, said by other senior UN humanitarian officials to be trying to stay on atop OCHA under a Next SG, may find it more difficult.

   And speaking of Next SG, how might this impact the chance of Susana Malcorra, campaigning for Malvinas only this week as Argentina's foreign minister? A trusted Inner City Press British observer opines Brexit helps Malcorra, moaking the UK more reluctant to veto or openly oppose her, amid questions of its Permanent Security Council seat if Scotland breaks away.

Malcorra this week chaired a meeting about sexual violence in conflict, which some found ironic. We'll have more on this. For now, Inner City Press entrance Periscope here. In the UN system, UNHCR and IOM rushed this video out, and UNTV broke out the reading of Ban's statement, here.

Later on June 24, the UK Mission to the UN issued a transcript of its PR Rycroft's remarks to the press, without saying where it occurred

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