After
Israel
Complains 6
Days of UNSC
Inaction,
Togolese Draft
on 3 Cities
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 22 --
Six days ago,
Israel's
ambassador Ron
Prosor
complained
that the UN
"Security
Council should
have condemned
these attacks
immediately.
Israel expects
it to issue a
clear
condemnation
today."
On
Wednesday
evening after
Security
Council
consultations
including on
Syria, it
emerged that not India
or the Host
Country
but Togo, as
Council
president,
would be the
sponsor of a
statement
condemning the
attacks
in New Delhi,
Tblisi and
Bangkok.
Some
said that
only the first
was the type
of terrorist
act on which
the Council
speaks. But
the draft will
be "under
silence"
procedures
until noon on
Thursday.
There
was talk of
India still
waiting for
instructions
from its
capital. And
so the
Togolese
solution.
There
still
remains
surprise as
the "weakness"
of Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon
response, a
"mere" note to
correspondents.
Sources
in the
Executive
Office of the
Secretary
General
indicated that
this
is because
"nobody died."
Ban has issued
stronger
statements,
the complaint
goes, in cases
in which no
one was
actually
killed. Now
Ban has set
off on a trip
not only to
London but
also
Zambia and
Angola.
Ambassador
Prosor
came to the
Security
Council on
Tuesday
afternoon;
Israel was on
the
list of
speakers in
the all day
debate on
crime and the
Sahel. He
assigned blame
-- saying that
Hezbollah is
active in West
Africa. And
now... the
Togolese
solution.
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