UN's
CAR Talk Has
No Answer on
Rules Beyond
Bangui, Unlike
Georgieva
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, July
9 -- About the
Central
African
Republic, too,
the UN
talks a lot
but does not
answer
questions.
Early Tuesday
the Office
for the
Coordination
of
Humanitarian
Affairs began
hyping up a
visit
to CAR later
this week by
Baroness
Valerie Amos
and the EU's
humanitarian
chief Kristalina
Georgieva.
A
recent study
by Medecins
Sans
Frontieres,
which the UN
also tweeted,
says there are
no
international
staff outside
of the capital
Bangui,
due to UN
rules.
So it seemed,
at least to
the Free
UN Coalition
for
Access
which is
assessing the
UN's
responsiveness
that the UN
should
answer: if
it's true
they're
confined to
the capital
and if they're
thinking of
changing the
rules.
These
rules,
even before
the Seleka
coup, led to
little to no
UN service to
Haut-Mbomou
prefecture and
its capital
Obo, as Inner
City Press has
previously
covered, here.
At
Tuesday's
noon briefing,
Inner City
Press told
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon
spokesperson
Martin
Nesirky, I
have questions
about the
Central
African
Republic and
Haiti, but
first one on
Syria. But
after
that, while
allowing
others
multiple
questions, he
never took the
CAR
question.
When
an
answer came to
@FUNCA_Questions,
it was from
the EU's
Georgieva,
saying she is
looking
forward to
traveling
outside of
Bangui and
that
she'll answer
at that time,
in two days.
Inner
City
Press previously
asked
Georgieva
about aid
workers in
Syria and
gotten an
even-handed
answer, of
something not
being black
and white.
Increasingly
this UN is not
even handed.
But shouldn't
they at least
take and
answer
questions?
Georgieva's
response
Tuesday was
immediately repeated
on
@FUNCA_info,
like a virtual
quick
stakeout for
anyone to see;
this is how
the UN and its
allies should
be but aren't.
We'll have
more on this.
Watch this
site.
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