In
UN World Cup Africa Beat
Europe on Penalties While In
UK Tamils Face Abkhazia in
CONIFA
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video
UNITED NATIONS,
May 31 – At 5 pm on May 31 as
a draft
resolution about Gaza was
pending in the UN Security
Counci amid a call by Kuwait
for a vote at 6 pm, a football
(or soccer) tournament was
held on a small fenced off
part of the UN's North Lawn.
Ambassadors faced off by
region, with Latin America (or
GRULAC) winning third place
and Africa meeting Europe in
the final. Inner City Press
ran out from the Security
Council stakeout and
live-streamed what it could on
Periscope, here,
which is for now banned
on the UN's 38th floor by
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres and his spokesman.
Africa with the Ambassador of
Tunisia as playmaker built up
a lead, firing goals past the
Ambassador of impending
Security Council member
Germany. But the Europeans
came back to tie it in
regulation time, sending the
final to penalties.
In that
round, Tunisia sealed and soon
medals were being awarded by
the President of the General
Assembly Miroslav Lajcak and,
incongruously, new Governor of
New Jersey Phil Murphy.
Neither New York Governor nor
his opponent Cynthia Nixon was
on hand, nor Mayor De Blasio
and his Ambassador on
International Affairs.
A German
band played and invitation was
made for sausages and beer in
a tent by the East River -
until Inner City Press was
informed there might be a vote
at 7 pm on Kuwait's Gaza
draft, here.
Just before 8 pm that was
canceled, and put over to June
1 and the Security Council
presidency of RUssia, which
has its own World Cup event at
6 pm on June 1. Inner City
Press asked
Georgia's Ambassador about an
alternative World Football
Cup, CONIFA, including
Abkhazia and Tamil Eelam among
others, which has begun in
London. Video here,
six second Vine here.
Watch this site.
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