Saudi Arabian allies pressured UN chief to issue blacklist reversal, sources say
Source: Guardian
That removal prompted angry reactions from human rights groups, which accused Ban of caving in to pressure from powerful countries. They said that Ban, currently in the final year of his second term, risked harming his legacy as UN secretary-general.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources said Ban’s office was bombarded with calls from Gulf Arab foreign ministers, as well as ministers from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), after the blacklisting was announced last week. One UN official spoke of a “full-court press” over the blacklisting.
“Bullying, threats, pressure,” another diplomatic source told Reuters on condition of anonymity about the reaction to the blacklisting, adding that it was “real blackmail”.
The source said there was also a threat of “clerics in Riyadh meeting to issue a fatwa against the UN, declaring it anti-Muslim, which would mean no contacts of OIC members, no relations, contributions, support, to any UN projects, programs”.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/saudi-arabia-united-nations-blacklist-yemen-ban-ki-moon
Saudi Arabia and its allies have threatened to cut off funding to UN programs if United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon doesn’t drop the kingdom from a blacklist of violators of children rights, diplomatic sources say.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources said Tuesday that Ban’s office was bombarded with calls from the foreign ministers of the Persian Gulf littoral states, as well as ministers from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), after the blacklisting was announced last week.
On Monday, the UN temporarily removed the Saudi kingdom from the blacklist of states and armed groups that openly flout the rights of children, pending a review. But Saudi envoy to the UN said the removal was “irreversible and unconditional.”
One UN official said Saudi Arabia is organizing a “full-court press” over the blacklisting.
http://www.caribflame.com/2016/06/saudi-threatens-to-cut-un-funding-over-blacklisting-sources/
And this is exactly why True Participatory dmocracy and Capitalism can never coexist.
$ trumps all.
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uhnope
(6,419 posts)Carib Flame is just an anti-western CT site with articles on "Bilderberg" and other anti-Semitic buzzwords. The Guardian is okay but sometimes descends into BS like this article. "A diplomatic source said..." Yeah probably the Russian ambassador.
Fail
Are they acceptable?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-saudi-un-idUSKCN0YT2UT
According to Reuters Jordan's U.N. Ambassador admitted their foreign minister complained. Bangladesh also admitted they contacted
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/08/un-chief-faced-blackmail-after-blacklisting-saudi-led-coalition/
CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/07/middleeast/saudi-arabia-yemen-u-n-/
BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36467765
uhnope
(6,419 posts)Saudi Arabia is hell and so are many of the Mideast countries that complained.
Notice that in the links you provided, it is the UN Security Council that looks most culpable for not backing Ban in a similar incident in the past.
Saw that in the articles as well
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awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)cave to these primitives?
Eugene
(61,858 posts)Source: Reuters
U.N. chief blasts Saudi pressure after Yemen coalition blacklisting
UNITED NATIONS | BY LOUIS CHARBONNEAU AND MICHELLE NICHOLS
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that Saudi Arabia had exerted "unacceptable" undue pressure on the world body after a U.N. report blacklisted a Saudi-led military coalition for killing children in Yemen.
Riyadh had threatened to cut its funding of U.N. programs in response to the blacklisting last week and suggested a fatwa - an Islamic legal opinion - could be placed on the world body, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
The U.N. announced on Monday it had removed the coalition from its annual child rights blacklist pending a joint review by the organization and the coalition of child deaths and injuries during the year-long war in Yemen.
Ban described the decision as one of his most painful and difficult and said millions of other children likely would suffer if funding for U.N. programs was cut off.
"Children already at risk in Palestine, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen and so many other places would fall further into despair," he told reporters. "It is unacceptable for member states to exert undue pressure."
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-saudi-un-idUSKCN0YV1UQ
