On
G20, Mexico
Doesn't Meet
UN's Ban,
Occupy
Discouraged,
Volcker Rule
Opposed, UN in
"Urgent Need
of Reform"
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
March 8,
updated March
13 -- When the
current G20
heads of
Mexico came to
New York, they
tellingly did
not meet with
UN Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon, Inner
City Press
learned on
Thursday.
Rather they
met only with
Ban's official
Robert Orr,
now being
moved to an
invented post
about public
private
partnerships.
[See update
below.]
The
Mexican
Mission to the
UN's able
spokesman
organized a
press
conference at
the Mission
with five
journalists,
at which
Roberto Marino
and "Sherpa"
representative
Gabriel Terres
downplayed the
obsolescence
of the UN.
Then
Inner City
Press asked
Mexico's
Permanent
Representative
to respond to
the theory
that currently
the UN General
Assembly is
becoming
obsolete, or "not
fit for
purpose" as
its President
from Qatar has
put it.
(The PGA's
spokeswoman
told Inner
City Press
earlier on
Thursday this
was "taken out
of context,"
but wouldn't
say if any
correction had
been
requested.)
It
is "in urgent
need of
reform,"
Mexico's
ambassador
responded,
indicting the
marginalization
of ECOSOC, but
saying that
somehow the
current troika
and Singapore
could reverse
it.
Mexico is a
leader of the
UFC school of
Security
Council reform
which if
enacted, which
is unlikely,
could help
reverse the
trend.
The
Mission was
asked if the
Occupy
movement will
target their
G20. I hope
not, said
Marino. But
why not?
Already
President
Obama has
moved the G8
from Chicago
to Camp David
to make it
"more
intimate" --
that is, less
protestable.
Inner
City Press
asked if it is
true that the
G20 is against
implementation
of the US
Volcker Rule,
not because it
is pro
deregulation,
but only
because it
would lower
the value of
non-US
goverment
bonds. It
hadn't been
implemented,
Magiro agilely
answered.
But
in fact a
Mexico based
subprime
lending owned
by Salinas
Pliego, the
Grupo Elektra,
is now in line
to buy
controversial
US payday
lending
Advance
America. Who
is using the
G20? Watch
this site.
Update
of March 13,
2012: The
Mexican
Mission
informs that
the formal
requests to
meet were to
Jomo Kwame
Sundaram, who
was
unavailable,
so Robert Orr,
pre public
private
partnerships,
was produced.
Another
request was
for Sha
Zukang,
unavailable,
so they met
with Thomas
Seltzer, just
renewed for
one year after
serving four.
Duly noted!
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