On
Libya, Inner City Press Asks FM
Alfano If Italy Funds Militia To
Detain Migrants, He Denies
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video;
Photos
UNITED NATIONS,
September 18 – When
Italy's Foreign Minister
Angelino Alfano took media
questions at the UN on
September 18, they were all in
Italian except for a final
chosen question about Donald
Trump. Inner City Press
insisted and asked, in
English, if Italy funds
militia in Libya to detain
migrants and refugees.
Alfano's answer was in
Italian, but a handler from
the Italian Mission offered a
translation: that Italy has
denied it. So what due
diligence does Italy do, over
the funds it gives to the
UN-propped up government in
Libya? We'll have more on
this. Alamy photos here.
When US President Donald Trump
gave his UN reform speech on
September 18, he noted that UN
staff have doubled since 2000,
but we haven't seen the
results. He could have said
more: what HAS been seen
includes inaction on mass
killings in Sri Lanka and
Yemen, Myanmar and Cameroon.
Not mentioned in Secretary
General Antonio Guterres'
speech, nor in his answers the
two times Inner City Press has
asked him, is the UN bribery
guilty verdicts in the case of
Ng Lap Seng / John Ashe. The
UN was shown, only this
summer, to be for sale. And
nothing has changed. As UN
General Assembly week started
up on Sunday, the US announced
that Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson would meet with his
Russian counterpart Sergey
Lavrov at 9 pm, at Russia's
Mission to the UN. Inner City
Press after asking Cote
d'Ivoire president Alassane
Ouattara a question about
Myanmar - without answer -
biked up to that Mission on
67th Street. There in the half
light were dozens of reporters
and photographers, waiting for
Tillerson to leave. In the
street were US body guards
with machine guns. Tillerson
emerged and said nothing,
driving away. Video here.
Most of the Western wire
service correspondents, one a
photographer who'd been at the
UN photo op with Ouattara but
not the stakeout with Ivorian
media, turned and left. Then
the spokesman for Lavrov, and
before him for now deceased
Ambassador Vitaly Churkin,
emerged and briefed in Russia.
Inner City Press was informed
second hard that she said the
topics had been Syria, Ukraine
and Minsk implementation, and
“North Africa.” Later the US
State Department said, “U.S.
Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson and Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov met
this evening in New York on
the sidelines of the United
Nations General Assembly. The
two recommitted to
deconflicting military
operations in Syria, reducing
the violence, and creating the
conditions for the Geneva
process to move forward,
pursuant to United Nations
Security Council Resolution
2254.” So what about North
Africa? Peacekeepers in
Ukraine? Watch this site.
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