By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
May 9 -- When
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon "sold
out"
and removed
his own envoy
to Sierra
Leone Michael
von der
Schulenburg,
a German, UN
sources told
Inner City
Press they
were
disturbed by
Ban's failure
to stand
behind his
envoy -- and
that Ban
would now give
a different
job to a
German.
On
May 10
Morocco's
foreign
minister
Saad-Eddine El
Othmani is now
set to meet
with Ban. What
is the topic?
Well, sources
tell Inner
City Press
that
Morocco wants
to lobby
AGAINST the
impending
naming of a
German as
Special
Representative
of the
Secretary
General to the
Western Sahara
mission
MINURSO:
Wolfgang
Weisbrod-Weber.
Weisbrod-Weber
has
served, at the
D-2 level, as
UN
Peacekeeping's
director of
the
Asia and
Middle East
Division. This
would be a
promotion, and
in a
sense
Ban-style
payback for
selling out
Schulenburg.
But,
the sources
ask, will Ban
sell out
again?
Moroccan
minister Saad-Eddine
El Othmani was
at the UN only
recently, on
March 14, and
Inner City
Press asked
him questions:
video here,
article
here.
There
is also more
and more
grumbling
among
non-Western
member states,
including on
the
Security
Council, about
Ban's "Nordic
focus."
Most recently
Ban replaced
Schulenburg
with Denmark's
Jens Anders
Toyberg-Frandzen,
"after winking
at Koroma he
won't give him
any trouble"
in
Sierra Leone.
This is the
way Ban's UN
works and is
perceived.
Watch
this site.
