Why
end the sentence
that way? Why
not say WHERE
they were
taken: Israel?
As so
often with the
UN, it's not
that the
answer takes
time, it's
that the UN
doesn't want
to answer. In
this case, why
wait a full
day to see if
it was asked
again? These
are
peacekeepers
injured
working for an
ostensibly
public
institution.
Previously
on
November 12,
after being
told by
sources in the
area of over
170
injured people
from Syria and
the Golan
being treated
in the Ziv
Medical
Center, Inner
City Press asked
the UN:
Inner
City
Press: UNDOF
question, what
does UNDOF do
when a person
who is
injured either
in fighting or
a civilian
injured
through
fighting,
approaches
them, I have
been told that
in some
instances,
they’re
turned away to
avoid
allegations
from either
side of taking
sides,
but is there
just a sort of
implicit
protection of
civilians
mandate
of UNDOF and
what's the
protocol when
an injured
individual,
either a
fighter or a
civilian,
approaches
UNDOF?
Spokesperson
Nesirky:
I’ll need to
check on that.
I do believe
that we do
have
something on
that, but I
would need to
check first,
okay?
In
that case,
three hours
later
Spokesperson
Martin Nesirky
sent:
Subject:
Your
question on
UNDOF
From: UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not Reply
[at]
un.org
Date: Tue, Nov
12, 2013 at
3:19 PM
To:
Matthew.Lee
[at]
innercitypress.com
Regarding
your
question at
noon about
UNDOF, we have
the following
to say:
The
UN
Disengagement
Observer Force
(UNDOF) has
provided
medical
treatment,
including
immediate
first aid and
emergency
treatment, to
civilians on a
strictly
humanitarian
basis. For
further
details, we
refer you to
the March,
June, and
September 2013
Reports of the
Secretary-General
on UNDOF.
In
this case,
UNDOF couldn't
treat its own
peacekeepers,
according to
media in
Israel and
Fiji -- and
then the UN in
New York said
it had
heard nothing
about it.
When asked a
second day in
a row, it
answered, but
omitted where
the
peacekeepers
were sent for
treatment.
At Tuesday's
briefing,
Haq's chiding
response,
after dodging
questions on Uganda's
claims against
the UN
("ask the AU")
was to say
that Central
African
Republic
shouldn't be
shortened, as
nearly all on
the Security
Council do, to
"CAR."
So
the UN can
pronounce very
precisely --
but wouldn't
confirm the
injury then
the transfer
to Israel of
its own Golan
peacekeepers
or if
Ladsous'
DPKO has any
Standing
Claims
Commission
anywhere in
the world. On
November 18,
it was "not a
yes or no
question."
And on
November 20?
Still not
answer - but
the statement
that counting
days is not
helpful. What
is?
Watch this
site.
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