Crimea's
Dzemilev at UN
Is Asked of
Trump By
Trump's VOA,
Changes, Serry
Story
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 14 --
When Crimean
Tatar leader
Mustafa
Dzemilev and a
Ukrainian
journalist who
said she help
save UN envoy
Robert Serry
in Crimea held
a UN
press
conference
on November
14, Trump was
the first
question. Both
said they do
not believe -
or hope - that
US policy will
not change so
much, since
the US is not
just about one
person.
Inner
City Press, at
the end, asked
Dzemilev for
the status of
the Crimean
Tatar
parliament
challenging
its banning in
the European
Court of
Justice --
legal work
continues but
any decision
might not be
respected --
and for
details about
the “saving”
of Serry. He
was in a
cafeteria
known as
“Vienna Buns”
surrounded by
Self-Defense
Forces who
told him to
leave Crimea
and he did. It
was a
different
story than
previously
told in the UN
Press Briefing
Room, here.
Notably,
the
first / Trump
question was
asked by Voice
of America,
which is US
State
(Department)
media. How
will Trump
election
change VOA,
including at
the UN which
it has asked
the UN to
throw the
investigative
Inner City
Press out? See example
here.
November
14 video,
here.
We'll have
more on this -
and the votes
in the UN
Third
Committee on
Crimea.
Now on
November 11,
the UN
says Ban
spoke with
Trump and
"expressed
confidence
that the
United States
and the United
Nations would
maintain their
traditional
strong ties of
cooperation."
In censorship?
On
election night
itself, Inner
City Press
reported what
it heard
regard former
US Ambassador
to the UN John
Bolton, his
spokesman
Richard
Grenell, and
SFRC chairman
Bob Corker.
Some in
UN-World are
circling the
wagons; Ban is
doling out
interviews,
just as he did
for his
now waning
hopes to be
South Korea's
next
president.
How did
the current US
Mission taken
not action on
censorship by
Ban and his
Under
Secretary
General Cristina
Gallach,
even when asked
to do so by
the Government
Accountability
Project?
Why has the
current US
Ambassador
wasted
resources with
no fewer than
three
bodyguards
even when
inside the
UN?
We'll have
more on this -
watch this
site.
when Inner
City Press got
to the United
Nations later
in the
morning, it
asked Yemen's
Ambassador
Khaled Hussein
Mohamed
Alyemany if he
thinks under
Trump the US
will continue
to fuel up
Saudi
warplanes for
their bombing
runs. Video
here.
Inner City
Press asked
Iraq's
Ambassador to
the UN M A
Alhakim about
the idea
outgoing
President
Obama will try
to speed up
action on
Mosul and
Raqqa before
Trump takes
over. He said
a sped-up
process would
be good. Vine
video here.
Outgoing UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon came
to read a
statement; his
outgoing
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric said
Ban would not
take
questions. But
one was yelled
out on climate
change; Inner
City Press
then asked
about the criticism
of Ban by
Senator Bob
Corker, a
possible
Secretary of
State, over
Ban's weak
response to UN
peacekeepers'
engaged in
sexual abuse.
Video
here;Vine here.
In New York
City early on
the evening of
November 8,
from the UN on
First Avenue
to Trump Tower
and the
Peninsula
Hotel on Fifth
Avenue (Inner
City Press' Periscope video here),
the assumption
was that
Hilary Clinton
would win.
Then Ohio then
Florida then
finally
Pennsylvania
went Trump.
And at 3 am on
November 9,
after a
concession
call but not
speech by
Hilary
Clinton, Trump
declared
victory (and
compared
Reince to the
bronze statue
of the horse
Secretariat at
Belmont race
track). Now
what?
Some predict
John Bolton as
Secretary of
State. On TV,
they talk of
Newt. More
nitty gritty
some wonder if
someone like
Brett Schaefer
might be UN
Ambasssador.
(The current
UN Ambassador
prepared for a
victory party
- there are
still no post-
or mid-results
photos to
mirror those
from the
Javitz
Center).
In Seoul,
South Korea
issued
statements;
from Ban
Ki-moon,
wannabe South
Korean
president,
there was
nothing yet.
Earlier a
Permanent
Representative
told Inner
City Press,
gesturing at
the UN campus,
If Trump wins,
this is all
over. We shall
cover it, in
detail. Watch
this site.
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