At
UN
on ATT, "Egypt
Used
Palestine"
After Rio+20,
US
Election Year
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
July 3 --
During a lull
Tuesday
afternoon in
the fight
about
Palestine's
status in the
UN Conference
on the Arms
Trade Treaty,
Inner City
Press spoke to
a range of
interested
parties, to go
beyond the
"Palestine
sold out"
analysis
earlier
offered by
a Non-Aligned
Movement
hardliner.
The
state
of play,
sources said,
was that
Palestine
after "taking
pictures in
the front row
of Conference
Room 1" had
agreed to
have the
matter
referred to
the
Credentials
Committee.
But
the
United States
argued that
Palestine had
to withdraw
its letter
requesting
credentials.
While
Deputy
Ambassador
Rosemary
DiCarlo, said
to be leading
the charge on
Tuesday,
declined to
comment to
Inner City
Press saying
that she had
a meeting,
sources quoted
another US
representative
as declining
to call
Hillary and
work a
compromise to
get the ATT
started.
There's
nothing we can
compromise on,
or words to
that effect,
sources
quoted the US
representative.
It's an
election year.
A
nuanced and
cynical
analysis is
that "Egypt
used the
Palestinians."
This narrative
begins with
the Rio Plus
20
conference,
for which
Palestine's
status was
never
resolved. Once
down there,
Brazil gave up
its seat for
Palestine.
On July
2 in GA,
Palestine's
name tag in
middle, sent /
(c)
InnerCityPress
"Egypt
saw
that and
realized it
could bring up
Palestine now,
and slow down
the ATT," as
one source put
it. In this
view, the
Palestinian
mission lost
control of its
issue for
others --
perhaps not
inconsistent
with the NAM
hardliner's
view.
Still,
Palestine's
team was
working hard,
back and forth
in the North
Lawn
building's
second floor
at 2:15 pm on
Tuesday, where
DiCarlo
declined
to comment.
Palestine, as
Inner City
Press
exclusively
reported, got
into the Law
of the Sea in
June.
But
the
US is not
party to the
Law of the Sea
Treaty. And
it's an
election year.
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