Ban
Urges
Yanukovich
Against
Violence,
Power Calls
CAR's
Djotodia,
Politics
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 8 --
In
international
politics,
telephone
calls are
placed and
read-out over
weekends, each
with its own
message. This
weekend UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon made
much of having
called
Ukraine's
Yanukovich and
telling him,
"no resort to
violence."
It
sounds
good, but why
hasn't Ban
made similar
calls during
not only
the outright
slaughter of
civilians in
Sri Lanka in
2009, but
even
during the
crackdown on
Occupy Wall
Street in the
US, and on the
Elsipotog
First Nations
in Canada?
Meanwhile
US
Ambassador to
the UN
Samantha Power
was the Obama
administration's
called
to Central
African
Republic
president
Michel
Djotodia.
Normally to
call a head of
state, if it
is not Obama,
it's Vice
President
Biden or the
Secretary of
State, John
Kerry. When is
the
last time that
that US'
outreach to a
head of state
came from its
UN
Ambassador?
But
the Central
African
Republic's
colonial
master France,
through
president
Francois
Hollande, has
already said
Djotodia can't
stay. So
the US echoes
that call,
through its
call, from UN
Ambassador to
temporary head
of state.
That, is the
message.
While
Ban Ki-moon
was at
France's
African confab
he met with
the prime
minister of
Libya (no
mention of if
he got
approval for
the UN's
desired
deployment of
235 UN
Security
personnel to
Libya), and
the DR
Congo's
Kabila, who
Ban
congratulated
for successful
military
operations
against M23.
So
would Ban (and
the US) like
Djotodia more
if he were
more
successful
militarily? Is
that what it
comes down to?
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