On
November 11,
the UN
said 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?
It gets worse.
On November
14, Ban's
deputy
spokesman
Farhan Haq admitted
that
“regarding the
conversation
with the
President-elect,
it was just a
short,
basically,
introductory
telephone
conversation
of just a few
minutes or
so.” Nov
14 UN
transcript
here.
But on
November 14
Ban Ki-moon in
Marrakesh said
“as you may
know, last
week I spoke
to
President-elect
Mr. Trump and
I brought up
many issues,
peace and
security
issues,
including the
issue of
Climate
Change.” Nov
15 UN
transcript
here.
So how many
peace and
security
issues could
or did Ban
really bring
up in “just a
few minutes”?
And to what
effect, when
in his answer
on Morocco he
didn't even
mention
Western Sahara
much less
Suelma Beiruk,
whom Ban's
spokespeople
claim Ban
wants to stop
being Banned
from COP 22 by
Morocco, but
on which Ban
is doing or at
least saying
nothing? We'll
have more on
this.
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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