ICP
Asks New SG
Guterres About
Yemen, He Says
Honest Broker,
S Sudan Too
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 13 --
When
new UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres came
to take
questions
outside the
General
Assembly hall
on October 13,
he was first
asked about
Syria and
cited his past
as head of the
UN refugee
agency.
Inner
City Press
asked, “And
Yemeni
people?” -
referring most
recently to
the double-tap
airstrike on
the funeral in
Sana'a.
Guterres took
the question,
adding in
South Sudan as
well, and said
he will try to
be an honest
broker. That
would be a
welcome
change, and
one that we
will closely
cover as
censorship
restrictions
are lifted.
Inside the GA
hall, speakers
included
Chile's
Ambassador
Christian
Barros and the
UK's Matthew
Rycroft, who
spoke of the
process by
which Guterres
was selected
(but not,
perhaps
understandably,
about Yemen).
US Ambassador
Samantha Power
joked that she
had set aside
time around
Christmas in
case more
straw polls
were needed.
In the days
and weeks
ahead, Inner
City Press
will be
running its
“New UN”
series, which
today covered
the Office for
the
Coordination
of
Humanitarian
Affairs. The
need for
change at UN
Peacekeeping
and the
Department of
Public
Information is
clear. But how
will the UN
become
anything near
to an honest
broker? We are
hoping for it.
Watch this
site.
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