As
Palestine Joins UNIDO,
Some Talk US Funding Cut, But
US Long Gone Like France
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
May 23 – UN official Nickolay
Mladenov announced in the
Security Council on May 23
that "on May 15 Palestine acceded
to the United Nations
Industrial Development Agency
(UNIDO), UNCTAD and the OPCW."
Some quickly said that the
United States would cut funding,
including to UNIDO. But as
Inner City Press reported, the
US left UNIDO long ago, and
France left it in 2013-14.
Back on September 13, 2013 when
Peru's President Ollanta Humala
Tasso and Li Yong, Director
General of the United Nations
Industrial Development
Organization, UNIDO, held a media
stakeout at the UN on Monday, one
expected them to take at least a
few questions.
France
cut funding to and dropped out of
UNIDO in April 2013, following the
UK. What does the agency think of
this? What did Peru
think of it?
But
after each man read out a
statement, there was confusion.
"No questions!" came a call from
the side of the stakeout. Inner
City Press asked anyway, about the
cutting of funding. A spokesperson
came up and said, if you want to
ask a question, give me your card.
Inner City Press did.
But
what is the point of a stakeout,
with the media present, if no
questions are taken? Are the
journalists just extras? This is a
question asked by the Free
UN Coalition for Access, @FUNCA_info.
Ironically under Guterres the
UN's chief executive board
in April 2017 met on, and Inner
City Press
published an
internal list
including, this
Montreux topic:
the UN common
position on the
admission of the
State of
Palestine to UN
Specialized
Agencies,
Programs and
Funds by Sept.
2107, how to
thrive without
UN/Western
funding -
learn from the
experience of
UNIDO and UNESCO
in this regard."
Thriving?
We'll
have more on UNCTAD, and on this.
Watch this site.
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