At UN, Outgoing Assembly Prez Denies He Served Qatar, Won't Disclose Funding

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, September 14 -- When Qatar's Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser came to do his final UN press conference as President of the General Assembly (PGA), he said he could not speak for Qatar.
  Inner City Press asked him about Qatar's funding of his year as PGA: how much did Qatar pay, and how closely aligned was what he did as PGA with Qatar's foreign policy? Video here, from Minute 33:50.

  Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, after a disarming "I like your questions," denied there was a connection. He said, "I cannot carry hidden agenda, I cannot decide for member states."


  While that might be true on some matters, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser issued statements without any vote of the membership, traveled and gave speeches seemingly on behalf of the GA, on Qatar's priority issues.

  Contrary to UN officials who calls for a cessation of violence by all sides in Syria, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser on Friday said it all depends on the authorities stopping. Under his watch, UN Television cut off just as Syria's Permanent Representative Bashar Ja'afari began to speak.

   To be fair, when Nicaragua's Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann was PGA, he flew to Honduras about the coup d'etat against Zalaya and pushed a Grupo ALBA agenda. Nicaragua did not provide the funds for all this work so d'Escoto Brockmann was reduced to raising funds from individuals, none of it disclosed.

  Speaking of flying, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in the past year has accepted, and disclosed only after questioning by Inner City Press, free air travel from Qatar.


  Would he accept such freebies from all UN member states? Could all member states afford to make the offer -- or to be PGA?

  Inner City Press asked Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser if he thought, to be equitable to poorer countries like Nepal which he and Qatar beat out for Presidency of the GA's 66th session, PGA funds in the future should just come out of the UN budget.

  Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser seemed to agree, saying he has urged the Fifth (Budget) Committee and Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Matters to provide a sufficient PGA budget.


  But when asked on Friday he did not disclose how much Qatar provided him; Inner City Press has previously asked his office in writing without this number being disclosed.

  Such disclosure would be a first baby-step for UN reform --- click here for Inner City Press coverage of the budget of the incoming PGA Vuk Jeremic of Serbia, characterized by Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser as "full of ambition." Watch this site.

At UN, Zelaya's Minister On Israeli Arms Distributor, Death Squad Leaders and Mercenaries

By Matthew Russell Lee
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UNITED NATIONS, October 12 -- As the foreign minister of deposed Honduran president Mel Zelaya, Patricia Rodas, told the Press in New York that the clock must be turned back to June, the monent before Zelaya's ouster, Inner City Press asked about mercenaries in the country. Zelaya has been quoted that "Israeli mercenaries"were trying to kill him with gas and chemicals.

Inner City Press asked Ms. Rodas if there is proof, of the Israeli mercenaries or of the UN reported Colombian paramilitaries in the country, and if so if she would be taking the evidence to the UN Security Council, as a threat to international peace and security. Video here, from Minute 31:56.

Ms. Rodas fastened on the Colombian paramilitaries, expanding it to include past death squads including the "316"group and Billy Joya, a squad leader now advising Micheletti. The "Israeli mercenary" question she converted a question of a single individual who distributes the gas and chemical at issue.

Ms. Rodas said that it is "lobbyists for the dictatorship" and "mercenaries who are trying to breed division between Zelaya and Israel. She emphasized that she has attacked media mogul Jorge Canahuati, even though he is of "Palestinian descent."

In her more than ten minute response to Inner City Press' question, Ms. Rodas likened Micheletti to a Nazi, spoke of the regime's $300,000 lobbying contract in Washington -- which includes Clintonista Lanny Davis -- and expressed solidarity with the victims of the Holocaust. It's a nice spin, but Zelaya wasn't quoted about a single distributor, but "Israeli mercenaries." Watch this site.

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At UN, North Korea Brags, Kouchner Baffled by Burma, Zelaya by BlackBerry

By Matthew Russell Lee
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UNITED NATIONS, September 28 -- The UN's General Debate grew even more surreal on Monday. North Korea said its people are happy and have nothing to envy. The ousted president of Honduras Mel Zelaya spoke to the General Assembly through his foreign minister's BlackBerry, pushed up against the microphone.

Meanwhile, the representative of the coup leader of Guinea spoke unmolested, even as more than 70 protesters of the coup were shot dead in Conakry. Few commented on this, even as a throng of Guinean shouted outside the UN that the dictatorship should not be allowed to speak. When all you have is bauxite, oppression draws little notice.

Myanmar, on the other hand, now has natural gas. This explains the sudden ease of pressure, Hillary Clinton's announcement that the U.S. will "engage" with the junta. Inner City Press is told that at the beginning of last week's meeting of the Group of Friends on Myanmar, France's Bernard Kouchner said, we don't know what to do. Apparently the view of the oil company Total now rule.

About North Korea, the head of the UN's Department of Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe, pursued into the hallway after his briefing by reporters for Japanese media as well as Inner City Press, acknowledged that while Japan had raised to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon the issue of the abductees in North Korea, Ban never raised it to North Korea when he met them.

Meanwhile Angola spoke of its basketball team's wins, Timor-Leste spoke pro-Cuba. Namibia spoke pro Western Sahara, as Hugo Chavez has, while Guinea's junta favored Morocco. And Malaysia denounced those who in the run up to the Copenhagen climate change meeting are seeking to "Steal the Deal." On September 29, seemingly the ending day of the Debate, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with speak and, one assumes, take questions for half an hour. Watch this site.

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As Honduras' Post-Coup Central Bank Brags of IMF Funding, IMF Continues Its Spin

By Matthew Russell Lee
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UNITED NATIONS, September 6 -- The International Monetary Fund, which in July told Inner City Press it had no program in Honduras and therefore, even after the coup, there was "no issue," is now under fire for its allocation of Special Drawing Rights to the country. The Honduran Central Bank has put out a press release bragging that

"At the initiative of the twenty industrialized and emerging countries (G-20), presided by the Prime Minister of England, Gordon Brown, the International Monetary Fund injects liquidity into the world economy and Honduras augments its international reserves by $150.1 million."

In response, on a Sunday when the IMF is closed Monday for U.S. Labor Day, the IMF told the press

"The IMF recently approved a global allocation of US$ 250 billion in IMF Special Drawing Rights to supplement all of the Fund's 186 member countries' foreign exchange reserves. It does not constitute aid money. In the specific case of Honduras, the present regime in de facto control is not able to use these SDRs until a decision is made on whether the Fund will deal with that regime as the government of Honduras."

But back in July, when Inner City Press asked IMF spokespeople Caroline Aktinson and William Murray, they replied that there was no issue, that no decision had to be made. At the IMF's July 16 briefing, Inner City Press asked if the expulsion of Manuel Zelaya from Honduras has given rise to any changes or discussions within the IMF. Ms. Atkinson responded that "we have followed the normal international practice." She said that "we don't have any program with Honduras."

But the IMF in June opened up a Technical Assistance Center for Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (CAPTAC-DR) in Guatemala City. IMF Deputy Managing Director Takatoshi Kato was quoted that "this center is an example of strong regional cooperation in Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic... A region with almost 40 million people has significant economic potential. The Fund is proud to be a partner in the effort to promote regional economic growth and development, and hopes that CAPTAC-DR will serve as an engine to push forward the objective of a more economically cohesive region.” The latest regional technical assistance center will serve Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

When Inner City Press raised this in July and asked, "is there no change in IMF stance toward Honduras?" the IMF's response was that "On Honduras, we have no financial program there. It's not an issue per se."

So the IMF has a center which spend money to serve Honduras. Clearly the IMF likes to as long as possible dodge questions and, some say, accountability.

Footnote: At the UN, it is the position of the supporters of Zelaya that the General Assembly resolution prohibits any member state from sending observers to an election held by the coup leaders. Watch this site.

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IMF Says on Sri Lanka, Int'l "Views Will Be Considered," Spends on Honduras But Dodges Question

By Matthew Russell Lee
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UNITED NATIONS, July 16 -- When the International Monetary Fund's Executive Board finally meets on Sri Lanka's application for a $1.9 billion loan, IMF spokeswoman Caroline Atkinson told the Press on Thursday, "all of the international community's views will be considered."

The question posed, by Inner City Press, asked the IMF to respond to reports that "funds spent in the North are 'the jailer of these people and 'looks like internment.' What safeguards would be in place?" Ms. Atkinson's answer, referring to what she called the IMF's "good discussion with the authorities," did not mention any safeguards. Briefing at Minute 17:18.

United Kingdom officials have made statements, which they have not retracted, that Sri Lanka's application for an IMF loan is "not moving," that the conditions are not right.

While the US position has vacillated, the Obama administration's close attention to media probably means that the New York Times front page story of July 13, and the next day's editorial, makes less likely for now U.S. support for a $1.9 billion loan to Sri Lanka, whose military budget is $1.6 billion.

Inner City Press also asked if the expulsion of Manuel Zelaya from Honduras has given rise to any changes or discussions within the IMF. Ms. Atkinson responded that "we have followed the normal international practice." She said that "we don't have any program with Honduras."

But the IMF last month opened up a Technical Assistance Center for Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (CAPTAC-DR) in Guatemala City. IMF Deputy Managing Director Takatoshi Kato was quoted that "this center is an example of strong regional cooperation in Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic... A region with almost 40 million people has significant economic potential. The Fund is proud to be a partner in the effort to promote regional economic growth and development, and hopes that CAPTAC-DR will serve as an engine to push forward the objective of a more economically cohesive region.” The latest regional technical assistance center will serve Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

So the IMF has a center which spend money to serve Honduras. Clearly, as in the case of Sri Lanka for the last four months, the IMF likes to dodge questions and, some say, accountability. But in light of the CAPTAC-DR, it cannot so easily dodge the question of Honduras. The World Bank has spoken to the question. When will the IMF?

Footnote: Inner City Press also asked the IMF, "What is the IMF's response to the UN General Assembly's outcome document with its criticism of the IMF and geographical balance, etc? And please deny that you pick and choose and censor questions submitted online about pending IMF loan applications - like Sri Lanka." The former has yet to be answered; there has been one round of back and forth (without substantive answer) on the latter. We will continue to pursue this.

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Zelaya and d'Escoto Flew in Chavez' Plane, Some Questions UNanswered

Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at UN
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UNITED NATIONS, July 6 -- Venezuela's Hugo Chavez provided the plane on which Manuel Zelaya and UN General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann flew July 5 over Tegucigalpa, d'Escoto Brockmann's spokesman Enrique Yeves confirmed to Inner City Press on July 6.

Brockmann's return from his native Nicaragua to brief the General Assembly in New York will be paid "from the President's budget," Yeves said, adding that the PGA's budget is "audited by external and internal auditors like everything else at the UN." Video here, from Minute 17:44.

Now that it is confirmed that Chavez provided the plane to Zelaya and presumably paid for jet fuel, the extent of his support and control in Honduras is worth re-examining. As noted, Zelaya refused to provide the Honduran parliament with his budget in September 2008.

After the Honduras Supreme Court ruled that Zelaya could not hold a flash referendum removing presidential term limits, it has been reported that the referendum -- or "opinion poll" -- materials were prepared and paid for by Chavez.

On July 5, Nicaragua's ambassador to the Organization of American States predicted that Honduras will say that it and Venezuela are behind and funding protests in Tegucigalpa, in an echo of Iranian claims that the UK is behind the protests in Tehran. Sticking with that comparison, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was asked by the Los Angeles Times

LAT: If President Ahmadinejad comes to the U.N. General Assembly in September as the elected president of Iran, will you acknowledge his election as legitimate?

BKM: It's up to the member states who should represent their country. If he comes as president of Iran, I'm ready to meet with him again and discuss all matters.

By that logic, once Honduras' Supreme Court ruled it legal that Zelaya be replaced by Micheletti, Ban and the UN Secretariat would have deferred to the country's highest court. But getting a sense of the political winds, Ban applied a different test. Either test can be defended, but a double standard can't. Or hasn't.

Back at the UN, D'Escoto Brockmann refused to defend his use of UN funds to hire two relatives. After that, his spokesman Enrique Yeves refused to answer, or even listen to, Inner City Press' question about how much of the PGA's Office's $280,000 budget from the UN has been spent. Several correspondents at the UN say the amount has nearly or entirely all been spent. Has it been replenished?

UN General Assembly Resolution 53/214

13. Requests the Secretary-General to enhance the Office of the President of the General Assembly by taking all the necessary steps to ensure the full implementation of paragraph 1B.10 of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “United Nations reform: measures and proposals”,6 [A/52/303] as adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 52/220, so as to provide transparency and accountability and thereby strengthen the ability of the President of the General Assembly effectively and efficiently to discharge the responsibilities of the Office as deemed appropriate;

14. Decides that the President of the General Assembly, consistent with the approved programme budget, should have full authority to use the funds provided in the budget for the Office, including hospitality and travel and any other requirements for the accomplishment of the official responsibilities;

Paragraph 1B.10 of S-G report [A/52/303] provides

1B.10 In order to enhance further the ability of the President of the General Assembly to discharge his responsibilities, it is proposed that the budget include a sum of $250,000 for each year of the biennium to supplement the level of support currently provided. Consultations would be held with each President of the Assembly to determine the way in which these funds would be used to enhance support for his/her Office.

Given this, can the funds be used without explanation to hire relatives? Are the funds in fact subject to audit by the UN Board of Auditors and investigation by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services? These are transparency and accountability questions, like the "how much has been spent" question which has still not been answered. Watch this site.

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As Deposed Honduran Zelaya Rallies at UN, Questions Multiply, About Thursday Return with d'Escoto and Finances

Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at UN
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UNITED NATIONS, June 30, updated -- Honduras' deposed president Manuel Zelaya's arrival in New York from Managua was the buzz at the UN on Tuesday morning. In front of the Security Council, diplomats made predictions about Security Council action depending on outcomes at the Organization of American States. In the General Assembly, less than an hour before Zelaya's speech was to begin, the hall was less than one third full as a speaker droned on about the UN's $8 billion peacekeeping budget.

The first money question of the day, at least for Inner City Press, was who paid for Zelaya's flight to New York? Some suggested Air Chavez; others noted that Bolivia's Evo Morales skipped last week's UN summit on the global financial crisis due he said to a broken aircraft. Zelaya, of course, has amassed his own wealth.

In Monday's GA session, Peru's representative joined others in denouncing the military coup in Honduras. He pointed out, however, that changes to how many terms a president can get should be processed according to the Constitution. While this was the backdrop to Zelaya's ouster from the country -- sanctioned by the Honduras Supreme Court -- the current President of the GA Miguel d"Escoto Brockmann concluded that one delegation had been "ambiguous."

Actually several diplomats noted that Peru had been quite clear; it simply didn't jump on the cartoon-like bandwagon that even the U.S. did. What remained unclear after Monday, because d'Escoto Brockmann's spokesman refused to answer, was how much of the $280,000 that the UN and global taxpayers give to d'Escoto Brockmann's office for the year has already been spent, and how.

Half an hour before Zelaya's slated appearance, a speaker on the budget relayed what he called an ancient Chinese proverb: by both scrambling for the same thing, both parties look bad. By giving up something, both parties win. One wondered how that might apply to the situation in Honduras. Watch this space -- we will live blog Zelaya's speech and aftermath here.

Update of 11:22 a.m. -- the budget session has been suspended, awaiting Zelaya's speech. On one vote about the UN Mission in Lebanon, only the U.S. and Israel voted no. "What happened with Obama?" The Ambassador of Haiti's to be seen glad handing other diplomats, China's deputy Liu walking jauntily up the aisle. The GA hall is more full now. The moment is near. And Zelaya's slated to hold a press conference at 12:45.

Update of 12:53 p.m. -- in the GA Hall, amendments are being proposed to the draft resolution on Honduras. Zelaya is seated in the Honduras seat. D'Escoto's and Zelaya's joint press conference has been postponed to, they say, 1:30 p.m..Outside the briefing room, a dozen Spanish-speaking journalists not usually at the UN mill around, asking "who is that Ambassador?"

In the midst of this, UN envoy to the Great Lakes of Africa, former Nigerian President Obasanjo, takes questions from the Press about the Congo. One wag notes that Obasanjo is a man who never let himself be overthrown.

Update of 1:02 p.m. -- D'Escoto announces that the following have joined as co-sponsors: the United States (camera cut to Amb. Rosemary DiCarlo, who d'Escoto yesterday called his sister), Canada and Colombia... There is applause... Rules are being waved in order to approve the just-suggested changes... d"Escoto bangs down the absurd wooden axe. And now the speech of the "Excelentisimo" Senor Zelaya...

Update of 1:17 p.m. -- Zelaya is saying the names of leaders who called him; he lays it on thick for Costa Rica, where he was "dumped" at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 28, for "Raul Castro" for repudiating a "grosero cuerpo militar." Zelaya is expected in Washington for an OAS meeting later on Tuesday...

Update of 1:25 p.m. -- Zelaya says he fought for freedom of information, and freedom of the press. He said he offended those who made money off the poor.

Update of 1:35 p.m. -- Zelaya argues that no court can diminish the natural rights of the people: the right to a referendum to allow him more than one term.

Update of 1:37 p.m. -- Zelaya says that in Honduras after the coup, the radio played only music and other "banal things." He says today's meeting makes him feel ever more committed to humanity.

Update of 1:40 p.m. -- Zelaya is narrating his Saturday before the coup: he led a march of 1000 to an army base to get the materials for the referendum, they let him in as Commander in Chief. The materials were distributed and elections observers began to arrive.

Update of 1:50 p.m. -- Zeleya relates how he was in his house outside of town -- he has cattle, he says -- and woke up in early in the morning and found a battalion outside, with rifles. His 21 year old daughter was in another building. He was in pajamas. They broke the doors. Zelaya had his cell phone out, calling a journalist. Then rifles pointed at him and, screaming, ordered him to drop the cell phone. Blow by blow, indeed.

Update of 1:51 p.m. -- speaking about his daughter, his voice crackes and he stops, dramatically. The audience claps. Unreal.

Update of 1:53 p.m. -- the pause is over, the voice is steady, Zelaya says that in the 1980s he fought for the return of Constitutional order.

Update of 1:57 p.m. -- the speech is over, the race is on: of the press for Zelaya and the briefing room.

Update of 2:49 p.m. -- Zelaya emerged from the GA Hall to a media scrum. In Spanish, he was asked, "What is your message for the aggressors?" He proceeded to the media briefing room. The press conference was run by d'Escoto Brockmann's spokesman Enrique Yeves, who at the previously day's ill-attended noon briefing refused to answer any questions about how d'Escoto Brockmann spends the funds given by the UN and taxpayers, and who has provided no information since.

A series of generally lame or unanswered questions followed. Is he afraid? Of course not. Is he offended that he will not meet with either Barack Obama or Hilary Clinton? No, the trip was hastily put together. Zelaya says he will be flying to Tegucigalpa on Thursday, accompanied among others by... d'Escoto Brockmann, who sat motionless throughout the press conference, declining to answer the few questions directed his way.

Inner City Press had a question to ask, but a raised hand throughout the press conference was ignored by d'Escoto Brockmann's spokesman, who called on numerous Mexican outlets and several reporters he could not identify.

With all the flowery talk about transparency and freedom of information, it is amazing that a few questions about d'Escoto Brockmann using public funds to hire his nephew and niece leads Team Brockmann to disallow any further questions. Watch this site.

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UN's D'Escoto Pins Honduras Coup on Obama, UN Money Questions Cut Off

Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at UN
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UNITED NATIONS, June 29 -- With a range of world leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, condemning the Honduran army's ouster on June 28 of President Zelaya, the UN General Assembly hastily took up the issue on June 29 at noon. GA President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann's spokesman on June 28 issued a press release that

"D’Escoto is making a special appeal to the President of the United States, Barack Obama, who recently at the summit in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, announced a new policy towards Latin America. 'Many are now asking if this coup is part of this new policy as it is well known that the army in Honduras has a history of total collaboration with the United States. In order to eliminate any doubt, it is absolutely necessary that President Obama immediately condemns the coups against President Zelaya.'"

To use d'Escoto's phrase, many at the UN, including Latin diplomats, are now asking if d'Escoto has gone off the deep end. On June 26, d'Escoto gave a rambling speech about the era of the dinosaurs. Then, one diplomat snarked to Inner City Press, d'Escoto again acted like a dinosaur on June 28.

Chile's Ambassador Heraldo Munoz was asked about d'Escoto Brockmann's statement. He pointed out wryly that the Organization of America States, with the U.S. as a member, had unanimously condemned the coup. He said d'Escoto Brockmann's statement, then, doesn't merit comment. Video here, from Minute 18:48.

In a radio interview on June 28, d'Escoto Brockmann railed that Honduras' is one of the most corrupt armies in Latin America. While there is a lot of competition for that title, the statement became ironic on June 29, when d'Escoto Brockmann's spokesman Enrique Yeves outright refused to answer, or even listen to, a Press question regarding how much of the $280,000 allocated to his Office by the UN's member states -- and their taxpayers -- has already been spent.

"I stop you there," Yeves said. "I am not going to make... I have already told you clearly... I am not going to reply to you on that issue." Video here, from Minute 33:31.

Inner City Press pointed out that Yeves hadn't even allowed the question to be asked. Yeves insisted that he knew what the question was going to be.

Yeves was referring to a question that Inner City Press asked d'Escoto last week, to provide his rationale for using UN funds to hire two relatives. At the time, d'Escoto said he encouraged Inner City Press to continue with the "speculation," that he found it entertaining.

First, that two d'Escoto relatives, Michael Clark and Sophia Clark, are being paid with UN funds is not speculation: Yeves himself on June 9 confirmed it to Inner City Press. After Inner City Press' exclusive report, it appeared in the Times of London and elsewhere, and numerous journalists who cover the UN said they would have liked to have known it when they quoted Michael Clark, who was brought out for multiple press conferences on behalf of d'Escoto.

Second, if as d'Escoto said speculative and not factual, then it can only be clarified by the asking and answering of questions. But Yeves insisted that he will not add to what d'Escoto said. Which was, it is speculative and entertaining.

D'Escoto claimed that the UN General Assembly and by implication his Office are more transparent than the G-20. Then he and his spokesman have refused to answer or even take questions about how much of the UN budget allocated to them has been spent.

D'Escoto made statement, largely well placed, about the Honduran Army's corruption. But when will his Office and spokesman provide basic information about how much UN and taxpayers' money they have spent? Watch this site.

Footnote: While D'Escoto Brockmann's Spokesman Yeves refused to even listen to the question about how the UN's and taxpayers' funds are spent by his office, he did answer two Press questions before shutting down. He said that d'Escoto is now "really glad" about Obama's statement.

When Inner City Press asked if D'Escoto had any response to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez putting his military on alert and threatening military action, Yeves said he had no comment on that. Then, about the use of UN and taxpayer funds, he said "I am not going to reply to you on that issue." Inner City Press encouraged Yeves to simply post the basic financial information on the President of the General Assembly's web site. We'll see.

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