As
Chile Takes
Over UNSC, ICP
Asks of
Palestine
& Sudan,
For Q&A
Stakeouts
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 5 --
When Chile's
Ambassador
Cristián
Barros Melet
held a press
conference
on the January
Program of
Work of the UN
Security
Council, when
he is
President,
Inner City
Press asked
him about a
next Palestine
resolution,
and about
rapes and
expulsions in
Sudan.
Ambassador
Barros replied
he has not
been informed,
formally or
informally, as
President of
any
new Palestine
resolution,
but he's read
in the media
that it might
be next week.
(That is what
Palestinian
President Mahmoud
Abbas has said.)
On Sudan,
Barros called
the government's
move to expel
the two
officials,
Yvonne Helle
of the UN
Development
Program and UN
Resident
Coordinator
Ali
Al-Za'tari,
“negative,”
and called the
situation of
addressing it
“fluid.”
On Syria, in
his national
capacity,
Barros called
Russia's work
on a Syrian -
Syrian dialog
important.
On Ukraine,
Barros said
that Lithuania
and UK pressed
the item and
he expects a
meeting in the
month.
Also
in the month
is a debate on
January 19
with Chilean
President
Bachelet on
inclusive
development.
We'll be
there.
The Free
UN Coalition
for Access,
which as the
second
question
thanked Barros
for the
briefing and
offered hopes
for many
question and
answer
stakeouts
(Chad in
December did
more than a
dozen), has
suggested that
naming which
Council
members press
particular
agenda items
is welcome
transparency.
Barros
announced a
Council
mission to
Haiti January
23-25.
Footnote:
Grabbing the
first
question, returning
head of the
“UN
Correspondents
Association”
Giampaolo
Pioli
after having
tried to brand
even the noon
briefing with
that UNCA
acronym, took
the set-aside
first question
and asked
about Haiti --
with no
mention of the
UN's role in
bringing
cholera to the
Island, much
less UN
Peacekeeping
being filmed
shooting at
democracy
demonstrators.
Will his
cluster of
Italian sites
report a word
about Haiti?
The goal seems
only to have
been to try to
brand. FUNCA
says in 2015,
UNacceptable -
and is ready
for the month.
Watch this
site.
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