ICP
Asks OSCE Zannier About Donbas
Docs & Drones, of Nikki
Haley, Guterres &
Feltman
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
February 21 – When the UN
Security Council met on
February 21 on “Conflicts in
Europe,” it began with a
minute of silence for Vitaly
Churkin, Russia's Ambassador
who'd died the day before.
Inner City Press obituary here.
Then came a briefing by OSCE
Secretary-General Lamberto
Zannier and a series of
speeches, including by the US'
Nikki Haley, see below.
Inner City Press asked
Zannier, at his press
conference, to specify the
dangers he sees in the
recognition of travel
documents from Donetsk and
Lugansk. He said there might
be some humanitarian benefit,
but it reminded him of
Georgia, Abkhazia and South
Ossetia.
Zannier said OSCE has had
eight drones shot down, at a
cost of $1 million each, and
is now using drones with a
medium range of 50 to 60
kilometers as well as cameras.
Inner City Press asked, since
he said OSCE will do
procurement through the UN
Peacekeeping base in Brindisi,
if OSCE can share some
technology with UN
Peacekeeping contingents like
Chad's, which suffers deaths
in Mali due to insufficient
equipment.
In the
Council Chamber, US Ambassador
Nikki Haley spoke not only on
Ukraine but also Moldova,
Nagorno-Karabakh and Cyprus.
(At noon Inner City Press
asking about Cyprus giving
citizenship to a member of the
UNFICYP mission there; there
was no answer). As Haley began
to speak, UN Secretary General
Antonio Guterres had to leave,
to sign the condolence book
for Churkin. With him was
holdover UN Department of
Political Affairs boss Jeffrey
Feltman. Will he be present,
or on the agenda, when Haley
meets with Guterres on
February 21 at 4:15 pm? There
are many changes and reforms
needed at the UN. Watch
this site.
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