That UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon runs scared, as one of his staffers puts it, more on Sri Lanka than other countries was again on display, but not to be photographed, on July 5. Ban was to meet with Ranil Wickremesinghe, described in Ban`s schedule as Leader of the Opposition.
But when Inner City Press asked to see the photo opportunity at the first of Ban`s meeting with Ranil, the double standards began.
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.
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.
