{"id":305954,"date":"2010-02-10T23:01:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T04:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11235"},"modified":"2010-02-10T23:01:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T04:01:27","slug":"welcome-to-the-u-n-%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cbantanamo%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/305954","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the U.N.\u2019s \u201cBantanamo\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"http:\/\/turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2010\/02\/09\/welcome_to_bantanamo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"webkit-fake-url:\/\/3E723F0A-1D7B-4353-9C18-4DB3FD56D691\/100209_ban2b.jpg\" alt=\"100209_ban2b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UN&#8217;s new temporary quarters, during renovations, are not too popular with the staff.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For the next four years, the United Nations&#8217; nerve center, including Secretary-General\u00a0<strong>Ban Ki-moon<\/strong>&#8217;s office, will be situated in a squat, three-story, corrugated steel building on the U.N.&#8217;s north lawn that looks like a cross between a suburban big-box store and a high-security lockup facility.<\/p>\n<p>Bant\u00e1namo, a nickname embraced by U.N. staffers, has taken much of the grandeur out of diplomacy at the United Nations. It&#8217;s a serious comedown for U.N. civil servants and delegates who have been grinding away in the cause of peace in one of New York City&#8217;s architectural landmarks, the glass and marble U.N. headquarters tower and the U.N. General Assembly hall &#8212; now undergoing a $1.87 billion renovation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think they are overreacting. Or they don&#8217;t think Guantanamo is really that bad.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/n5DLCdCKt64\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku The UN&#8217;s new temporary quarters, during renovations, are not too popular with the staff. For the next four years, the United Nations&#8217; nerve center, including Secretary-General\u00a0Ban Ki-moon&#8217;s office, will be situated in a squat, three-story, corrugated steel building on the U.N.&#8217;s north lawn that looks like a cross between a suburban big-box [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}