At
IOM Ken Isaacs Is Out in 2d
Round After Used UN Censorship
Alliance, Guterres Campaigns
By Matthew
Russell Lee, May
4, video, Q&A
UNITED NATIONS,
June 29 – One of three
candidates to head the UN
International Organization on
Migration, the US' Ken Isaacs,
on May 4 was given a closed
door platform in the UN,
specifically in UNCA, the UN
Censorship Alliance. It
came after widespread
criticism of now-private
Tweets against migration and
Islam. In the UNCA club, a
repeat questioner said, let's
leave the past behind. But
that has not been the view of
the member states of IOM.
After the second round of
voting on June 29, Isaacs is
out. And the Portuguese
candidate for whom UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres has been campaigning
some say improperly was in
first place: Vitorino 65,
Thompson 51 and Isaacs 27.
(The first round results were
Vitorino 58, Thomson 48 and
Isaacs 37 - Isaacs lost ten
votes between the two rounds.)
We'll have more on this. On
May 4 Isaacs himself said, I
won't answer anymore on that.
Not a single questioner
mentioned the other two
candidates, nor why they'd
taken Isaacs behind closed
doors rather than in the UN
Press Briefing Room or even
the UN Security Council
stakeout. Isaacs, perhaps
misled, said in his press
release that the May 4 session
was for UNCA members. But this
UNCA group has moved to evict
investigative Press from the
UN; its long time president
rented one of his Manhattan
apartments to Sri
Lanka war criminal and
then said if an article about
it wasn't removed from the
Internet its author would be
thrown out of the UN (and
was). Inner City Press, which
quit UNCA after that, waiting
in the hall and asked Isaac if
he'll debate his opponents,
Laura Thompson who is already
deputy at IOM, and Antonio
Vitorino, an ally of UNSG
Guterres who is linked to tax
evasion. Isaacs replied that
on May 17 there will be a
forum. Hopefully more open
that this one. Watch this
site.
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