Tillerson Meets UN's
Guterres After
Saying Break Relations With
North Korea, Sweden Switch
By Matthew
Russell Lee, New
Platform
UNITED NATIONS,
April 28 – After the North Korea
meeting of the UN Security
Council on April 28, US
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
went up to the UN's 38th floor
accompanied by Ambassador Nikki
Haley to meet Secretary General
Antonio Guterres and his team
including American Jeffrey
Feltman, nominated to the UN by
the previous US administration.
As Tillerson signed the UN
visitors' book at some length,
Nikki Haley joked she was glad
she wasn't the one signing.
Inner City Press Periscope video
here.
Earlier Tillerson had urged
member states to suspend
diplomatic relations with North
Korea. Inner City Press asked
Guterres' also holdover
spokesman Stephane Dujarric if
Guterres still believes, as
Dujarric said earlier in the
week with regard to diplomatic
relations of Morocco and Cuba,
that all such relations are
good. Dujarric wouldn't answer
directly. After the noon
briefing Inner City Press
went to Guterres and China
foreign minister Wang Yi photo
op - here
are its photos of Wang Yi
at the stakeout - and also found
(Tweeted photos here)
the whole Guterres team in
attendance: not only Feltman but
also Deputy Secretary General
Amina J. Mohammed, Chef de
Cabinet Maria Luiza Ribeiro
Viotti, holdover head of
Political Affairs Tanguy
Stehelin, Kung-hwa Kang and
more. Periscope video here.
Guterres had barely said that he
will be in Beijing soon when the
Press was ushered out.
During the morning's Security
Council meeting the UN sent out
Sweden's speech, which included
a line: "diplomatic relations
constitutes the basis for our
efforts and must be upheld in
accordance with the Vienna
Convention." See
Patreon here. Then the UN
sent out a "revised" Swedish
speech with the line about
upholding diplomat relations
removed. Also Patreon here. Call
it the Tillerson effect. Some
background: when Sweden got
involved in an "Elected Ten"
draft on Syria, the US sources
tell Inner City Press questioned
the move. Did that play any role
in Sweden's "revised" speech?
We'll have more on this.
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