With
Bangui
Threatened by
Rebels, UNSC
Looks into
Chad,
Waits for
2013?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 19,
updated -- As
rebels advance
on the capital
of the
Central
African
Republic, the
UN Security
Council has
belated
scheduled a
briefing for
past 6 pm on
Wednesday.
CAR
is yet another
step-child of
the UN. It has
a Department
of Political
Affairs
mission, long
shot through
with nepotism,
a
Peacebuildling
configuration
which even a
visiting
Permanent
Representative
told
Inner City
Press is
little known
and
ineffectual in
the country --
and all for
what?
Now
as the rebels
advance, it is
Chad which has
reacted, with
2000 troops
as a
"firewall."
But what would
President
Bozize, if he
remains
President, owe
to Chad's
Deby?
One
Security
Council member
told Inner
City Press one
of the
purposes of
Wednesday's
briefing is to
find out what
arrangement
Bozize and
Deby
have.
The
degree to
which CAR is
an
afterthought
is reflected
by a plan to
deal
with this
insurgency as
part of the
renewal of the
UN Mission
mandate
-- in January.
Who will be in
charge of
Bangui then?
Watch this
site.
Update:
the UN's Taye
Brook
Zerihoun, on
his way into
the Security
Council while
an Afghanistan
meeting was
still going,
was asked what
the UN thinks
should be done
on CAR. He
paused, but
did not
answer.
An
observer mused
perhaps his
mind was
already on the
DPA holiday
party. There
were only two
other
journalists at
the Security
Council - the
rest heading
to celebrate
Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
Watch this
site.
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