UNITED
NATIONS, April
26 -- Friday
nights at the
UN often
involve last
minute
negotiations
and hardball
to adopt, or
not adopt,
outcome
documents for
conferences
that have
meandered
along
throughout the
week.
April
26 was no
different: the
Commission on
Population and
Development
was coming to
a close, and
the draft
resolution on
Migration had
grown
from eight to
21 pages.
The
chair, Vlad
Lupan of
Moldova, laid
down the law.
“There are
serious
disagreements,”
he said. He
would now come
up with
another “draft
of the chair,”
and try to
impose it.
“I
will cross
your red
lines,” he
promised.
“There is no
time for
language
discussion,
I'm not going
to take it.
Allow me to do
my work.”
He
returned and
said that only
member states
in the working
would be
allowed into
the
negotiations
in Conference
Room 5 at 6:30
pm. “There
will be
security” he
said, to make
sure only
those got in.
Whatever.
Inner
City Press has
obtained
the draft and
puts it online
here.
In
the margin, a
Nordic country
explained to
Inner City
Press that
there
are statistics
for example on
HIV / AIDS and
migration, and
that
there are
issues which
were not
included in
the Migration
outcome
document six
years ago that
should be
now.
In
the back of
the room,
right to
lifers griped
about these
same issues;
they pitched
Inner City
Press on how
Planned
Parenthood had
“threatened
Nigeria.”
A
concrete issue
Palestine
wants, about
forced
displacement,
was in OP
2 ter
- or was it?
The room
emptied out.
The Moldovan
said when he
returned it
might be half
empty, he
would “try to
see it as half
full.”
Earlier
in
the week Inner
City Press
attended the
press
conference
about the
CPD, asking
people fleeing
Sri Lanka (and
returned by
Australia),
and
about the US
immigration
debate. Video
here, from
Minute 10:19.
Both
questions were
more or less
dodged. Now at
the end of the
week,
security bans
access to the
negotiations.
But here is
the draft.
Watch this
site.
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