This is correct, but the link leads to the wrong article. The one you are talking about is here, I suppose.
When one thinks about it, it's a quite genius move. He can't name and shame, because that would be a breach of diplomatic protokoll, but as the host he can decide whom to give a voice. And by making the demands he is made he exposed those Nations that don't realy give a fuck.
I like him.
"Me, a members of the only dominant species, whom is at this moment causing the sixt mass extinction, has once fehlt minor inconveniance by one of the species we are currently wiping out, therefore it is completely justified to wish said species a painfull slow death."