By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 21
-- The 67th UN
General
Assembly had
its first
argument about
legitimacy on
Friday, days
before the
General
Debate. A
meeting of
CELAC, the
Caribbean and
Latin American
group, had
been
scheduled from
10-1 and 3-6 in Conference
Room 5 of the
UN's North
Lawn building.
But
an attendee
ran out near
11 am and
exclusively
told Inner
City Press
that the
meeting was
"suspended"
when a
representative
of
"post-Lugo,"
some say
"post-coup"
Paraguay came
in.
Paraguay
has
already been
suspended from
MERCOSUR, and
now the fight
has
extended to
the UN in New
York. Inner
City Press
confirmed and
tweeted it. A
few hours
later, the
afternoon
session of
CELAC was
listed as
"Canceled."
Inner
City Press
approached the
UN Permanent
Representative
of one of the
CELAC members
and asked
about the
meeting's
suspension.
"There
was no
meeting," he
said with a
smile. He
predicted,
"Maybe
he won't come
in the future,
he will be
absent, so
this does not
happen again."
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