The United Nations Correspondents Association held a press conference on Wednesday, May 18th, 2022 with the Leadership Board of the Mayors Migration Council (MMC) during the UN International Migration Review Forum to discuss the progress and promise of city diplomacy on migration.
Mayors on the panel included:
Valérie Plante, Mayor of Montréal, Canada
Erias Lukwago, Lord Mayor of Kampala, Uganda
Giuseppe Sala, Mayor of Milan, Italy
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone
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Dirk drove five hours from St Augustine so he could give out free hot dogs and show his support for #Trump
My #MarALago office - still no appearance from Trump
6) He/She must also learn ALL about the different Regional & International stake holders. I have no answer on how to reform the SRSG system, since this is way above my pay grade, but I am only venting a feeling that has been building up among the majority of people in the M.E.
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!
High activity spotted at North Korea nuclear complex after Kim's bomb-fuel order-report apple.news/AJWTRbLd3QuKCa…
Again Russia’s Presidency of #UNSC ~ one of first events is Russia’s justification for the forced adoption and reeducation of Ukrainian infants and children in informal SecCo meeting twitter.com/estoniaun/stat…
⚠️🤯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
#Russia Presidency of UN Security Council for April begins today - Ukraine Ambassador reflects Kyiv’s outrage and disappointment at the UN ~ More on Monday @CBSNews| UnitedNations twitter.com/SergiyKyslytsy…
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…
La Russie assure en avril 2023 la présidence tournante du Conseil de sécurité de l'Onu. De nombreuses questions se posent sur cette présidence edans un contexte de guerre #Ukraine. Le Kremlin a fait savoir vendredi qu’il comptait « exercer tous ses droits » à la tête des 15.
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 🙏
Un martedì di paura. Trump in arresto (ma senza manette) col rischio incidenti - ilGiornale.it ilgiornale.it/news/politica/…
#UNSecurityCouncil #Lavrov #Syria #migration @VanuatuUN @TURKIYE_UN @IntlCrimCourt #Russia apparently plans an informal SecCouncil mtg on April 5 w/remote briefer, Maria Lvova-Belova, alleged kidnapper of Ukrainian kids & facing #ICC arrest warrant twitter.com/pass_blue/stat…
Trending UN News: Week Ending March 31 https://t.co/cKi9xCOSmq
— PassBlue (@pass_blue) March 31, 2023
Russia-Ukraine war: Will there be a spring counteroffensive? apnews.com/article/2a57e3…
