UNITED
NATIONS, April
29 -- For many
weeks Inner
City Press has
known that
Sudan refused
to grant a
visa request
by UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
former
director of
communication
Michael Ryder Meyer.
But it was
said it might
be granted, to
hold off
reporting it.
Then
the
spokesperson
for the
mission in
Darfur quit,
saying she was
not
getting UN
support.
Inner
City Press
asked, and
Ban's
spokesperson
Martin Nesirky
“confirmed
that Ms.
Elbasri
resigned from
her
position as
Spokesperson
there. That
was effective
from 22 April.
As with any
staff member
departing the
United
Nations, we
can’t
comment on the
specific
details
surrounding
her
departure.”
It's
one thing to
choose not to
respond to a
departing or
former
spokesperson's
critique (this
has been the
case since
April 26). But
to remain
silent when UN
officials are
denied visas?
After
Sudan's
Permanent
Representative
in the
Security
Council Monday
morning said
that there is
a smooth
process to get
visas to
Sudan,
Inner City
Press went to
the UN's noon
briefing and
asked if that
is
true.
Ban's
spokesman
Nesirky said
to “ask
Sudan.”
Inner
City Press
then asked,
isn't it true
that Ban's
former
director of
communications
Michael Meyer
is
being denied
entry? Video
here, from
Minute 22:40.
Nesirky
said
Meyer is
“waiting” for
a visa. For
how long? Why
so silent?
Now that
UNAMID has no
spokesperson?
What is
happened to
the UN and
UN
Peacekeeping,
under Herve
Ladsous? Video
here, for
Ladsous'
most recent
denials on
April 25.
Watch this
site.
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