Before
Iran Meeting, France Opposes
Instrumentalizing
Situation from Outside,
Biya
Echo
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Photo
UNITED NATIONS,
January 5 – Iran will be the
subject of a UN Security
Council meeting of some type
on January 5 at 3 pm. Before a
2:30 pm pre-meeting, the
Ambassadors of France and the
UK said they will vote to hold
the meeting (though France's
Francois Delattre cautioned
against any
"instrumentalizing" of the
situation from outside, a
position echoing France's on
the crackdown in the
Anglophone areas of Cameroon.
Delattre wished "bonne annee
aux Anglophones"). At the UN
noon briefing it emerged that
Iran's Permanent
Representative went to the
UN's 38th floor and met not
with Secretary General Antonio
Guterres but with his chief of
staff. Inner City Press asked
why that was, why Guterres'
public schedule has been empty
(all internal) for the three
days he's been back after an
11 day vacation, and if the
chief of staff's schedule can
be made public. Apparently
not. Nor would spokesman
Farhan Haq answer with whom
Russia's Nebenzia met on
January 4 on the 38th floor.
Ah, transparency. Kazakhstan
is the president of the
Security Council for January,
and just as they refused
on January 2 to take a single
Press question about Africa,
on January 4 they sent notice
initially only to some
correspondents. (Notable,
given press freedom issues
there.) As quickly obtained by
Inner City Press from multiple
sources, they wrote: "Dear
friends, To keep you informed,
tomorrow SC meets on Iran at
3.00PM, open format. And a
short announcement, our
Delegation is delighted to
invite you to a Tea and Coffee
table with Kazakh national
delights, to be served every
Tuesday and Thursday, starting
from 9 January, 9.30 to
11.30AM, in the UNCA Room, 3d
Floor, Secretariat Building."
We have and will have more on
this.
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