ICP
Asks UK Why UNSC Meetings on
Yemen &
Burundi Are Closed, If Kay Still
Wants Libya
SRSG
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
March 1 – With the United
Kingdom taking over the
Presidency of the UN Security
Council for March, Ambassador
Matthew Rycroft on March 1
took 20 questions from the
media. Inner City Press asked
him why the meetings on
Burundi on March 9 and on
Yemen on March 29 are both
closed door. Video
here.
On
Burundi, Rycroft referred to
France as the penholder. On
Yemen -- on which the UK holds
the pen -- he said sometimes
there is a benefit to a closed
door discussion. Fine: but
what's the problem with an
open briefing, then closed
consultations? The Free
UN Coalition for Access
will continue to pursue this.
On Yemen
Inner City Press also asked if
the UK's findings as it looks
into more than 250 incidents
of the Saudi led coalition
will be shared with the
Security Council. It remains
unclear.
At the end,
Inner City Press asked Rycroft
if Nick Kay is still a
candidate to be UN Envoy to
Libya. Rycroft said the UK
supports current envoy Martin
Kobler but if he is to be
changed, it should be fast,
there is momentum.
Rycroft
said that civil society will
be invited to participate in
the month's wrap up session, a
first. Boris Johnson will
chair the March 23 meeting on
South Sudan, and something on
Somalia later that day. We'll
have more on this.
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