On Friday, May 4th, the United Nations Correspondents Association held a press briefing with President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Ken Isaacs.
VIDEO, BIO and White House statement are available below.
About Ken Isaacs
Ken Isaacs is a senior executive leader with 34 years of experience providing emergency humanitarian and development assistance across the globe. For more information, visit KenIsaacs.com.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-ken-isaacs/
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5) To help him/her to cling a bit longer to his UN position, its high salary & its prestige, that guarantees this foreign diplomat all the privileges while he is drowning in the mires of learning about the complications of the local intricate political power struggle!
4) Without the good will & political awareness of the parties to the conflict, his/her chances to reach a peaceful & just solution to any crisis, are doomed. The SRSG will be then turned into an International Bureaucrat, trying to invent ways to help him cling a little bit longer
3) The system failed to solve any complicated political situation around the world, except for the lonely achievement by the late SRSG Sergio Vieira de Mello in East Timor. Regardless of who is the SRSG, he/she must have “good well & political savvy" from the conflict parties!
2) After years of different SRSGs in #Yemen, we have not achieved any political advancement towards a full comprehensive & fair political solution to the crisis. Yemen is another example of the shortcomings of the SRSG system @UKUN_NewYork @USUN @ksamissionun @UAEMissionToUN @GCC
c 📷 1) Today in 2015 I broke the story that SG Ban Ki-moon is removing Moroccan Diplomat Jamal Benomar as his SRSG to Yemen and asking USG Jeffery Feltman to find a replacement. Its an important memory for me personally that will allow me to say few words on the UN SRSG System!
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⚠️🤯Shameful & humiliating for #UNSC that its next president:
— Estonia in UN | #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 (@EstoniaUN) March 31, 2023
- fights a war of aggression against its neighbour
- commits most horrendous atrocities
- threatens the world with nuclear weapons
- is led by a war criminal with standing arrest warrant from #ICC#InsecurityCouncil pic.twitter.com/pETHcsJYtx
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Can you imagine such blood thirsty despots as: Adolf Hitler; Saddam Hussein; or Pol Pot presiding over UN Security Council, charged with preserving global peace & harmony?
— Sergiy Kyslytsya (@SergiyKyslytsya) March 14, 2023
This is no April Fool’s prank. Next month by extension Putin assumes UNSC Presidency https://t.co/NxwXm8DFpL
Before Evan Gershkovich headed on a reporting trip to Yekaterinburg, a colleague wrote him a text: “Hey buddy, good luck today.” wsj.com/articles/wsj-r…
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April is a mosaic of memories for all Bosnians & many others regardless of where they were at that time & what their involvement ✍️ in defense of multiethnic BiH 🇧🇦 was. Glory to Bosnia 🇧🇦 Full admiration for those who defended and are still defending Bosnia & Herzegovina 🙏
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— PassBlue (@pass_blue) March 31, 2023
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April is a special month in recent Bosnian history. War against Bosnia began in April 1992. And, sometimes it seems like it never stopped 💔 but just continues through different means. Time to reflect again, respect written history based on facts and abide by the ICTY judgments. twitter.com/MTokaca/status…
Ovako je bilo 5. aprila 1992. godine na Vrbanja mostu. Čovjek kojeg spašavamo je Amir Grahić. Uspio sam mu kravatom povezati potkoljenicu da ne iskrvari. Fotografiju je napravio Danilo Krstanović, fotoreporter Oslobodjenja. pic.twitter.com/3urTTOQVkA
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