Amid UNGA
Spat With India, Pakistan
Cites Kashmir With Photo
Seemingly From Gaza
By Matthew
Russell Lee, photos
India,
Pakistan
UNITED NATIONS,
September 24 – After India's
foreign minister Sushma Swaraj
in her UN General Assembly
speech said while her country
exports IT, Pakistan exports
terrorists, Pakistani
Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi asked
for the right of reply at the
end of Saturday's UNGA
session. She morphed India as
the biggest democracy into the
biggest hypocrisy - and raised
up a photograph showing the
impact of the use of pellet
guns. But it appears the photo
used was not from Kashmir, but
from Gaza. What next? The day
before on Friday, Inner City
Press had asked the
Commissioner General for the
United Nations Relief and
Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East,
Pierre Krähenbühl, about
UNRWA's policies on social
media. Inner City Press asked
about another UN agency,
UNHCR, being less than
transparent after a staffer
called for “harder repression”
of Anglophones in Cameroon;
another example was UNRWA
illustrating the situation in
Palestine with a photo from...
Syria. So these things happen,
but UNRWA is under different
pressures to issue
corrections, including by
funders. What will Pakistan
do? Will we find out by the Daily
Dawn? We aim to have
more on this - and on UN
Spokespeople being less
responsive than government's
Ambassadors, because the UN or
at least its Spokesman is
apparently under no pressure
or metric to be responsive.
After UN Secretary General met
with Yousef Al Othaimeen, the
Secretary General of the
Organisation of Islamic
Cooperation, the UN issues a
read-out that "they discussed
a number of issues of mutual
concern, including
counterterrorism, Syria, Iraq,
Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and
Afghanistan, as well as
resolving the plight of the
Rohingya minority in Myanmar."
Inner City Press tweeted photohere.
Then the UN "re-issued" the
read-out, dropping Somalia and
the plight of the Rohinga, and
adding the Middle East peace
process: "The
Secretaries-General discussed
a number of issues in OIC’s
area of responsibility,
including counterterrorism,
Syria, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, the
Middle East Process and
Myanmar. The
Secretaries-General agreed to
strengthen cooperation between
the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation and the United
Nations." So who complained?
Myanmar about the "plight of
the Rohingya"? The OIC about
no MEPP? Who said, drop
Somalia? We aim to have more
on this. On September 22,
Guteres met with Cameroon's
30-plus year President Paul
Biya, he met Saturday morning
with DR Congo holdover Joseph
Kabila, now with white in his
beard, and the prime minister
of Togo, where protesters
against the father and son in
power for 50 years are being
shot and killed. Inner City
Press covered the meetings, or
photo ops, here.
There was also Sri Lanka
(Sirisena without
accountability) and Libya's
Serraj. While no read-outs
have issued yet, the Cameroon
read-out refers only to the
political situation in the
country - that would be, the
killing and jailing of
Anglophones. This is today's
UN.
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