Egypt
PR
Tells ICP UN's
Feltman Is
Granted
Meetings, Will
Visit, US
Echoes
By
Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive
Audio
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 15 --
While the UN
Security
Council met
Thursday
about Egypt,
at least three
of that
country's
diplomats milled
around
just outside
with the
press.
When
it was over,
Inner City
Press asked
Egyptian
Permanent
Representative
Mootaz
Ahmadein
Khalil on tape
if the head of
the UN
Department of
Political
Affairs
Jeffrey
Feltman could
visit the
country, as
requested by
Security
Council
president for
August,
Argentina.
Ambassador
Mootaz
Ahmadein
Khalil said
that "we have
been contacted
by the
Secretariat"
of the UN,
"Mr. Feltman
expressed his
interest
to go." He
said, through
Egypt's
Mission to the
UN, Feltman
asked "to set
up a number of
high level
meetings and
we have
done so."
Inner City
Press exclusive
audio now
online here.
This
next step
wasn't made
clear in the
bland agreed
summary of the
meeting that Argentine
Permanent
Representative
Perceval read
out at
the stakeout.
This was
followed by
shouting, why
had she only
denounced the
anti-Morsi
coup in her
national
capacity?
Well, because
a number of
members have
refused to
call it a
coup.
Sources,
not
at the US
Mission, told
Inner City
Press that the
US represented
by Samantha
Power (Inner
City Press entrance
photo here)
expressed an
interest in
the end of the
state of
emergency and
elections
soon.
France
proposed
"press
elements"
for a
statement, but
this was
rejected.
Argentina
wanted to know
if
Feltman will
go.
And
now, at least
based on what
Egyptian
Ambassador
Mootaz
Ahmadein
Khalil told
Inner City
Press, it
seems the
answer is
"yes."
It
must be noted
that Feltman
was previously
the US State
Department's
chief for the
Middle East.
So will his
approach be
different than
that of the
State
Department,
where John
Kerry not only
didn't call
it a coup, but
said the
military was
restoring
democracy?
Earlier
on
Thursday Inner
City Press
asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesman
Eduardo Del
Buey if the
Secretariat
had any
comment
on Malian
coup leader
Sanogo being
rewarded this
week with a
promotion to
General. Video
via here.
No, there was
no comment.
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