At
UN
on Yemen, Ban
to Meet Karman
at 5, Experts
at UK Mission,
GCC Minus 1
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 19 --
As Yemeni
Nobel Peace
Prize winner
Tawakkul
Karman
campaigns in
New York
against the
immunity for
Ali Saleh
provided in
the Gulf
Cooperation
Council
initiative,
the 15 members
of the
Security
Council
scheduled an
experts level
meeting not in
the
UN but at the
UK Mission on
the Permanent
Five members'
draft
resolution,
which calls
for "a
political
settlement
based upon
[the] Gulf
Cooperation
Council
initiative."
Inner
City Press put
the draft
online earlier
today, here.
At
Wednesday's
noon media
briefing,
Inner City
Press
asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin
Nesirky, for
the second day
in a row,
about Karman's
letter to Ban
opposing any
immunity.
Nesirky said
Ban had yet to
receive the
letter, but
that he
might meet
with Karman in
the afternoon.
Now,
Inner City
Press has
learned the
meeting will
take place at
5 pm, after
the
Security
Council's
experts level
meeting.
Rallying
across from
Ban's
office on
Tuesday
afternoon,
Karman said
she will not
leave New York
until Saleh is
subject to an
asset freeze
and is
referred to
the
International
Criminal
Court.
A
member of the
Security
Council, asked
about this
vow, said
dismissively
that sure,
everyone likes
to come to and
stay in New
York. But
another source
who has met
with Ms.
Karman
predicts she
stands by her
words and
could "really
make an
embarrassment"
- for Ban, for
the
Council
members,
perhaps
especially the
US.
Karman by UN
on Oct 18, (c)
MRLee
The
US is largely
behind the
Gulf
Cooperation
Council, led
by US ally
Saudi Arabia.
Already Qatar
dropped out of
the deal --
its foreign
minister told
Inner City
Press Qatar is
no longer part
of it. So
really it is
the
GCC Minus One,
just as there
is the PG Plus
One on Iran.
Supporters
of the
draft
resolution
tell Inner
City Press
that "the GCC
is the only
game in town."
But who
structured
this game?
Watch this
site.
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