Posted on 5-2-2003

UN Ashamed Of Guernica

The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the Security
Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain.

The reason for covering this work is that this is the place where diplomats
make statements to the press and have this work as the background. The
Picasso work features the horrors of war. On January 27 a large blue
curtain was placed to cover the work.

Fred Eckhard, press secretary of the U.N. said: "It is an appropriate
background for the cameras." He was questioned as to why the work had been
covered. A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate background
if the ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte, or
Powell, talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals shouting
with horror and showing the suffering of the bombings.

This work is a reproduction of the Guernica that was donated by Nelson A.
Rockefeller to the U.N. in 1985.