When Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Permanent Representative to the UN Palitha Kohona left their encounter with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday night, they paused at the elevator speaking to and about Mr. Ban.
As caught on television by Inner City Campaign and put online here, Kohona told Rajapaksa, about Ban, "He has already seen the picture we sent him.
As the film Sri Lanka Killing Fields was screened Tuesday on the westward face of First Avenue in New York, across the street at the UN Inner City Press asked Secretary General Ban Ki-moon`s spokesman Martin Nesirky if Ban has yet seen the film, and for the UN`s response to its determination that Ban has not implemented the passport of his own Board of Experts on war crimes in the country.
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, January 11 - While the UN congratulates itself on its reactions in Haiti, it dismisses all criticism, including from Haitian women's NGOs, and has refused so far to remove the diplomatic immunity (or impunity) of a UN staff members whom a Haitian judge wants to wonder about the hanging death of a Haitian teenager inside a UN base.
UN Won't Disclose Ban's 1 on 1 Meetings This Month, Presidents Beyond Sri Lanka?
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, September 30, 2010 - While the UN issued summaries of about 100 meetings between countries' leaders and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during this month's General Debate, for between v and ten of these meetings there was an extra one on one session which was not included in the UN's summaries, it has emerged.
