For
GA, Bissau to
Send Interim
Prez,
Ramos-Horta
Tells ICP; "Not
Legit," A CPLP
Says
By
Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 5 --
With the UN
General Debate
less than
three
weeks ago, the
question of
who will
represent
Guinea-Bissau
became
Inner City
Press' focus
on Thursday
morning
(alongside, of
course,
Syria).
Before
a closed-door
consultation
of the UN
Security
Council on
Guinea-Bissau,
Inner City
Press asked UN
envoy (and
Nobel Prize
winner) Jose
Ramos-Horta
who would be
coming to New
York for the
debate.
"The
interim
president,"
Ramos-Horta
said. It was
quiet outside
the
Security
Council, with
no other
journalists
present. It is
considered
more
professional,
apparently, to
watch the G20
on television.
Inner
City Press
asked Cote
d'Ivoire
Permanent
Representative
Bamba about
Guinea Bissau.
He said
hopefully that
an interim
minister might
be
allowed to
address the
Security
Council, or
its members.
It
was suggested
it is now a
"more
inclusive"
government.
But
a
representative
of the
Portuguese
speaking group
Comunidade dos
Países de
Língua
Portuguesa
(CPLP) exclusively
told Inner
City Press,
"Not yet a
legitimate
one."
If
a government
is viewed as
not legitimate
by a
sub-regional
group, a
credentials
fight may
follow.
Earlier
this
week the Free
UN Coalition
for Access @FUNCA_info put online
the
new speakers'
list, and
DGACM's cover
letter.
Qatar now has
a spot
in the first
morning along
with Barack
Obama -- what
will have
happened in
Syria by then?
DR Congo's
Joseph Kabila
now has a spot
on the second
morning.
But it appears
that now the
Department of
Public
Information
has finalized
the
elimination of
media seats on
the General
Assembly floor
-- a new low.
Every
constituency
or
"stakeholder"
has to have
more limited
space. But now
this
UN tries to
cut the media
to NOTHING,
and its
Alliance says
nothing.
Access? Watch
this site.
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