As
Yemen Deports
Journalist
& Brags of
Praise from
UN, What Will
UN
Do?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, May 8
-- Yemen is
cited by the
UN and its
Security
Council
as one of
their success,
which between
South Sudan,
Haiti and the
Central
African
Republic are
increasingly
rare.
So
when the
government in
Sana'a deported
journalist
Adam Baron,
what
did the UN do
or say? So
far, nothing.
Instead,
the
Yemeni
government
bragged of
being praised
by the UN,
even as it
is the only
country,
according to
Under
Secretary
General for
Management
Yukio Takasu,
which has been
banned from
voting in the
General
Assembly due
to a failure
to pay dues.
State
media SABA
on May 7
reported:
SANA'A,
May
07 (Saba) -
Interior
Minister Abdo
al-Tarib met
here on
Wednesday
with Under
Secretary-General
of the United
Nations
Department of
Safety and
Security Kevin
Kennedy.
During
the meeting,
al-Tarib and
Kennedy
discussed the
possible means
to
enhance mutual
security
cooperation
Yemen and the
UN. The
Minister
underlined the
Interior
Ministry's
adherence to
strengthen the
cooperation
relations with
the UN in the
security
field.
For
his part,
Kennedy
praised the
great
successes
achieved by
the
security
services in
cracking down
on terrorists,
stressing the
UN's
willingness to
strengthen
cooperation
with Yemen.
So
what about
deporting
journalists?
When Inner
City Press on
behalf of
the new Free
UN Coalition
for Access asked
the UN
Secretariat
for
comment on the
jailing
by Ethiopia of
journalists including
the Zone
9
bloggers,
no comment
came. The UN
has a big
office in
Addis. What
of its success
story in
Yemen? Watch
this site.
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