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UNSC
Ceremony
for Six New
Members Amid 6+ Global
Crises,
Six Flags at
UN
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Photos
UNITED NATIONS,
January 2 – When the six new
members of the UN Security
Council came to install their
flags in front of the Council on
January 2, it was a formal
ceremony in contrast to the
previous year, when Inner City
Press was nearly alone as for
example the Bolivian and
Kazakhstan flags were unfurled.
This year Kazakhstan's
Kairat Umarov,
the Council's
president for
January, made
a speech and
welcomed
Poland's Joanna Wronecka, Peru's
Foreign Minister Ricardo Luna
Mendoza, Netherlands' Karel Jan
Gustaaf van Oosterom, Kuwait's
Mansour Al-Otaibi, Equatorial
Guinea's Anatolio Ndong Mba and
Cote d'Ivoire's Bernard
Tanoh-Boutchoue.
Will they have better luck than
their predecessors, on issues
ranging from Yemen to DRC, North
Korea and Iran, Syria to
Somalia, Cameroon to Nigeria to
Haiti? We will cover it. For
now, here's
a tweeted photo of the new
members' staff.
Back on December 1 the "old" UN
Security Council adopted a
US-drafted resolution on foreign
terrorist fighters on December
21; the afternoon before the
Administration held a background
press call to promote the draft.
Inner City Press asked about
safeguards on governments which
call their opponents terrorists,
as has recently happened for
example in Cameroon with the
assistance of the UN, whose
envoy Francois Fall calls all
secessionists “extremists.” An
Administration official - Nathan
Sales, Ambassador-at-Large and
Coordinator for Counterterrorism
- said it is a question of
concern and that the draft is
sprinkled through with
references to human rights...
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