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On
Leon's UAE
Job, UN
Repeateded His
"Bad Optics,"
UNSC Ignores
Them
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 7,
more here --
When
Bernardino
Leon, set for
a $1500 a day
job with the
United Arab
Emirates, came
to the UN
Security
Council for
the final time
on November 5,
Inner City
Press
asked
him about the
UAE. He did
not answer;
Inner City
Press for the
Free UN
Coalition for
Access said;
louder, that
he should do a
question and
answer
stakeout on
UNTV.
The same might
have been said
for the
Council
members.
Leon did
emerge and
take
questions;
Inner City
Press went
first and
asked him if
he had sought
approval from
the UN Ethics
Office before
pursuing the
UAE job, if he
acknowledged
the conflict
of interest
and thought it
will impact
intra-Libya
talks. Video
here.Leon
conceded that
the “optics”
were bad.
Video here.
But
it's more than
optics. Inner
City Press has
researched and
compared
Bernardino
Leon's
conduct, as
reflected by
the emails he
does not
dispute, to
the UN Charter
and UN staff
rules which
apply to him.
And after
publishing the
rules, Inner
City Press on
November 6
asked UN
Spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric about
them. Video
here.
On
November 7
when the UN
Security
Council put
out a Press
Statement
about Libya,
which the UK
put on Scribd,
here, it
called on the
parties to do
several
things, but
did not
address in any
way Leon's
deal-making
with the UAE
during his
tenure as the
UN's - and
UNSC's --
envoy to
Libya. Maybe
ACT will have
to act on
this...
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