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UN Week to Come UNSpun, Mali
Before Trip, Burundi in Geneva,
Corruption Spreading
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
September 2 – This coming
week, the UN Security Council
was to have had no meetings as
it traveled to the capital of
this month's president, Addis
Ababa. But late on Friday a
meeting was added for Tuesday,
September 5, about Mali. Noblesse
oblige.
Also on Tuesday,
a two-day meeting about the
New Urban Agenda, or the end
of UN HABITAT as we know it,
begins in the ECOSOC Chamber.
(Inner City Press either can't
cover it or can only do so
with a UN minder, due to
ongoing censorship
for covering the UN bribery
scandal of former President of
the General Assembly John Ashe
and Ng Lap Seng.) In related
news, incomding President of
the General Assembly Miroslav
Lajcak is slated to be taken
on Thursday for his
introduction to (some) media
to the private clubhouse the
UN gives to its UN Censorship
Alliance, UNCA. This group,
formally the United Nations
Correspondents Association,
took funding from Ng Lap
Seng's South South News and
provided the venue for Ng's
photos with Ban Ki-moon; it
has yet to be addressed.
Lajcak gave a good initial
answer on l'affaire Ashe,
when Inner City Press asked.
We'll see.
Monday is a
holiday in the US, but in
Geneva there will be a
briefing by the Commission of
inquiry on Burundi: Fatsah
Ouguergouz, President of the
UN Commission of inquiry on
Burundi; Françoise Hampson,
member of the Commission and
Reine Alapini Gansou, member
of the Commission. On
September 1, the new president
of the Security Council told
Inner City Press that Burundi
cannot be compared to, for
example, the Central African
Republic, because it has
“strong state institutions.”
Video here.
On Tuesday Geneva
will hear from Catherine
Marchi-Uhel, Head of the
International, Impartial and
Independent Mechanism; on
Wednesday from the Syria
Panel, now sans Carla Ponte.
In New York, the new Under
Secretary General of OCHA has
arrived; the new USG of the
Department of Public Information
has apparently not. Yet.
Without irony,
the UN will on Thursday hold a
meeting, by UNOAC, on
#fakenews. Coming soon: UN
General Assembly High Level
Week, UNspun by Inner City
Press. And so it goes -
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