UN's
Guterres on Road With Ban's
Feltman and Dujarric, Hoping For
Better Results
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
February 11 – Antonio Guterres
was chosen as the UN's new
Secretary General in a
closed-door process that was
paradoxically praised as
transparent. Forty two days
into his tenure, he is on a 12-day
trip to Saudi Arabia,
the UAE and Egypt, accompanied
and led by his predecessor's
(and Hillary Clinton's) Gulf
political adviser Jeffrey
Feltman. His holdover
spokesman Stephane Dujarric is
spinning
UN-friendly scribes with
quotes about how Guterres was
ostensibly
misled by US Ambassador
Nikki Haley. This is not propitious.
Who is
traveling with Guterres?
Unlike many countries, it has
not been announced or
disclosed. But Inner City
Press, which Dujarric and the
UN's Cristina Gallach evicted
from the UN (and restrict
it still) understands
from sources it includes not
only Dujarric and Feltman but
also Feltman's "plant"
Katrin Hett. When Inner City
Press asked about her
position, Dujarric called
the question "despicable." Who
is running this show?
When Saudi
Arabia's foreign minister, in
his first meeting with
Guterres in the last nine
days, effusively greeted
Feltman, it should have set
off alarms. But it didn't.
What was the role of the UAE,
along with Feltman, in telling
Guterres to appoint Salam
Fayyad to the Libya envoy post
previously occupied by Bernardino
Leon, bought
by the UAE? Questions,
questions.
It is
reminiscent of one of Ban Ki-moon's
trips to Egypt, when Mubarak
asked him why there were no
Arabs in the UN delegation. No,
Ban said, we have an Egyptian
- as a security guard. This
story long circulated among
the Arab heads of state the
inept Ban met with. We want
Guterres to be different - for
the good of the UN. Watch this
site.
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