UNITED
NATIONS, April
4, updated --
After the
introduction
of a strain of
cholera
from Nepal
into Haiti
killed
thousands of
people,
currently a
training
for 800 troops
from 23
countries for
UN
Peacekeeping
missions
is taking
place... in
Nepal.
It
would seem
that UN
Peacekeeping
should have
some
safeguards in
place,
even though
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon
tersely
dismissed
legal
claims about
the cholera,
calling them
“not
receivable.”
But
UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous has
repeatedly
refused to
answer
any Press
questions,
about Haiti,
cholera,
safeguards,
rapes by his
partners in
the Congolese
Army,
anything.
About
the Nepal
training, on
March 26,
Inner City
Press asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
Inner
City Press:
Martin, I want
to ask you
about Nepal,
there is
beginning
a two-week
training; it
is described
as a training
for UN
peacekeeping
missions of
over 800
troops from 23
countries.
Inevitably
because
outstanding
allegation
that it was
Nepalese
peacekeepers
who
inadvertently
brought
cholera to
Haiti for not
being
screened,
from, coming
from a country
in which
cholera was
prevalent
at the time,
what can you
say to those
who would say
bringing
prospective
peacekeepers
from 23
countries to
Nepal might
not be a
good idea,
absent some
safeguards on
DPKO’s
(Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations)
part on either
screening or
ensuring that
what took
place in Hait
as is widely
alleged
doesn’t take
place
elsewhere.
What’s your
response?
Spokesperson
Nesirky:
I’ll check
with DPKO.
On
March 28,
Ladsous again
refused to
answer Inner
City Press
questions
at the
stakeout
broadcast by
UN Television,
run by the UN
Department
of Public
Information.
On
April 4, nine
days after
Nesirky said
he would ask
DPKO about any
safeguards to
not spread
cholera again
and kill
people, Inner
City
Press asked
the question
again, this
time to Ban's
deputy
spokesman
Eduardo Del
Buey. (Nesirky
is traveling
with Ban in
San Marino,
Andorra and
Monaco).
What
safeguards
does DPKO
have?
Del
Buey said,
we'll check
with DPKO. Video
here from
Minute 7:25
But
that's exactly
when Nesirky
said on the
question, nine
days before.
Inner City
Press asked
Del Buey, “Did
you check with
DPKO?”
Del
Buey said yes.
So
Inner City
Press asked,
in light of
the nine day
with no answer
to
this basic
question, if
it would be
fair to say
that Ladsous'
DPKO
has no
safeguard.
Del
Buey now
protested, no,
don't put
words in my
mouth.
But
nine days
after being
asked, by
Ban's
spokesman, if
there are any
safeguards, to
have disclosed
none: what
else can it
mean?
What
several member
states'
representatives
now say is
that Ladsous
not
remain as head
of DPKO. As
one of them
suscinctly put
it, “It's an
experiment
that's failed,
he'd not cut
out for it.”
#LADSOUS2013.
Footnote:
just
before Del
Buey's “we'll
check with
DPKO” nine
days after
Nesirky said
just that,
there was a
press
conference
about
landmines
at which
another of
Ladsous'
spokespeople
-- not the noted
microphone
grabber --
was present.
But still, no
answers. No
answers at
all. Even
a post-Ladsous
DPKO
has been run
into the
ground.
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