A Stakeout is a planned impromptu meeting with the press. one such “locale” is at a prescribed location in front of the exit from the Security Council. On Halloween the meeting at the Security Council dealt with the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and with Western Sahara, but the UN General Assembly dealt with “Peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula.” At the Stakeout the President of the General Assembly, before introducing Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented the UN GA Resolution that was adopted by consensus - as a call to the TWO STATES OF THE KOREAN PENINSULA to settle the Inter-Korean differences in the interest of the the NorthEast-Asian Region, and the world in General. While he was speaking in diplomatic language of the two UN Member States, then, when the Secretary-General spoke, seemingly as a Korean, he mentioned the TWO PARTS OF KOREA - expressing thus the obvious case that Korea should be one State. This was strong language at the UN.

Completely different from his obvious intent of using his position at the UN in order to drive for the reunification of Korea, something our website is applauding him for, his positions on practically everything else are shrouded in language that uses words in order to say nothing - this is what they used to say before his election to the post of UN Secretary-General, he was famous for in his previous diplomatic positions - they called him “slippery eel.”

We were particularly taken back by his lack of reply to the question from a correspondent about the UN accreditation process that allows to the UN only those journalists that are sponsored by their governments - be those governments as undemocratic and oppressive as they may - the US press floors are thus devout of any press that should be representing opposition in undemocratic governments - like Myanmar - and as asked also in the case of Taiwan that cannot have press present at the UN because of a China rule.

Further, he did not address the question of a journalist that was trying to feed him with the idea that France kidnaped children in Africa. He said he will have someone look into it.

Now, totally to our disappointment - there was no question about his announced trip to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Antarctica - on topics of climate-change and ozone hole in action - on his way to Valencia, Spain, where he intends to be present at the release of the last, and IPCCC summary report on global warming/climate change. This did not surprise us at all as we already pointed out that Arab interests at the UN have made this topic a taboo at the UN Department of Public Information that under the Ahmed Fawzi - Gary Fowlie leadership has made the place free of interested media.

Except for the Korea issue, the attached video clip shows that this Halloween scene is the UN reality - please do not have too much hope that the UN will solve the world’s problems.

31 October 2007
Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Secretary-General of United Nations, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon.
UN WEBCAST TV VIDEO - 14 minutes

 http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand/st…