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ICP
Asks For Ban's
View on US
Sanctions on
DPRK, Wire
Spins China,
Not Kim Invite
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, July
7 --
The US
State
Department
on July 6
released its
North Korea
human rights
report, and
held an
embargoed
press call on
it. On July 7
Inner City
Press asked UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric for
Ban's comment
on it; he said
among other
things "The
Secretary-General
believes that
discussion of
human rights
concerns
allows for a
more
comprehensive
assessment and
action when
addressing
security and
stability
concerns on
the Korean
Peninsula."
Reuters
wrote this up
as if they'd
asked the
question,
emphasizing
the Ban is
pressuring
China to do
more on DPRK
humna rights.
But in what
Dujarric read
out before
Inner City
Press'
questions,
about Ban in
China, there
was mention of
DPRK but
NOTHING about
human rights.
This is how
the UN works,
or doesn't.
Inner
City Press
asked Dujarric
about Ban
inviting Kim
Jong Un to a
conference in
Turkmenistan,
then asked
this month's
Security
Council
President Koro
Bassho of
Japan about
the new US
sanctions.
They have not
yet come up in
the Security
Council. Will
Ban's invites?
When Ban
Ki-moon
wrapped up his
five day
campaign trip
in South Korea
with a
three-question
"press
conference" at
the UN's
DPI-NGO
conference, he
criticized
"coverage of
what was
supposed to be
off-the-record
meeting with
the Kwanhoon
Club" of
political
correspondents.
Even during
Ban's long
visit to South
Korea, Inner
City Press in
New York where
it has been
evicted from
its long time
shared UN
office and
confined to
minders, told
not to
question
diplomats
asked the UN
why no
transcript was
provided of
Ban's session
with the
Kwanhoon Club.
It asked again
on June 10,
the day after
Ban himself
called such
questions
"undue."
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