As
Seleka Rebels
Re-Starts
in CAR,
UN Does
Nothing,
France
Distracted by
Mali
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, March
17 – With
fighting
resumed for a
week in the
Central
African
Republic, the
UN Security
Council and
France which
“holds
the pen” on
the fate of
its former
colony have
done nothing.
On
March 13,
Inner City
Press asked
the UN's envoy
to CAR
Margaret Vogt,
who happened
to be in New
York on
vacation,
what action
she'd want
from the
Security
Council. Video here.
Her
first answer,
seeming to
reflect a
lack of
urgency, was
that she would
brief the
Council in
April. Then
she added that
perhaps the
Secretary
General could
say something
publicly
before then.
Some
doubt that the
Seleka rebels
in CAR are
much concerned
with another
expression of
“deep concern”
from Ban
Ki-moon.
France is
distracted in
another
unraveling
former colony,
Mali.
And
in the
Security
Council, the
control of the
pen or right
to draft is
jealously
guarded by
former
colonists.
Russia was
recently
chided for
proposing a
draft press
statement
about Sudan,
even though
Russia is
the president
of the
Security
Council for
March.
So
what will
happen with
CAR? Does
anyone in the
Security
Council care?
Watch this
site.
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