By Matthew Russell Lee
www.innercitypress.com/ban1surinamechina123009.html
UNITED NATIONS, December 30 -- Does climate change cover the multitude of sins and slaughter? For the UN, apparently it does.
On Suriname's border with Brazil on Christmas Eve, ax wielding masses attacked Brazilians and Chinese who work in the gold industry there. In light of the unrest and death, Brazilian media reported that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva raised the issue to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
But when Inner City Press asked Ban Ki-moon Spokesperson to confirm the call and content, as well as to explain why the call was not disclosed by the UN, the response ignored the violence and Lula's own description of the call.
The day after Inner City Press posed the question, the Spokesperson responded that, "Yes, the Secretary-General spoke with Lula and it concerned climate change. The call was among a number of calls to world leaders the Secretary-General has made as a follow-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen."
Why would the UN not confirm that Lulu brought up a deadly cross border incident? Ban's Spokesperson also did not respond to Inner City Press' request that the UN "explain why notifications and read-outs of such calls are not given, as they are for example for U.S. President Barack Obama," see below.
Now, Inner City Press has asked Ban's Spokesman to confirm China's Xinhua's report that when Ban called Wen Jiaobao today, he spoke only about climate change -- nothing about the refoulement and execution of Uighurs, execution of bipolar Briton Akmal Shaikh, or 11 year sentence of dissident Liu Xiaobo. Watch this site.
From: unspokesperson-donotreply [at] un.org
To: Inner City Press
Sent: 12/30/2009 8:34:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: your question about conversation with President Lula
Please confirm that Ban Ki-moon had a conversation with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, that it concerned Brazilians attacked in Suriname, any other topics and read-out. Relatedly, please explain why notifications and read-outs of such calls are not given, as they are for example for U.S. President Barack Obama.
Yes, the Secretary-General spoke with Lula and it concerned climate change. The call was among a number of calls to world leaders the Secretary-General has made as a follow-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
So, in Ban's UN climate change covers sin and slaughter, even cross-border. And why no policy on disclosing the Secretary General's calls? Watch this site.And see, www.innercitypress.com/ban1surinamechina123009.html
