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>Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN
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>NEW YORK.- 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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>This work is a reproduction of the Guernica that was donated by Nelson A.
>Rockefeller to the U.N. in 1985.