Pacing
among
tables
littered with
day's
discarded
sandwiches,
Serry said
loudly
into his
phone, "He
asked me to
convey a
personal
message to
Lavrov, I need
to reach
Lavrov."
That
for this
team Lavrov
was hard to
find was
telling.
Barely an hour
previous,
Inner City
Press spoke
with a gaggle
of Russian
journalists
being
taken to
interview
Larvov. They
knew how to
reach Lavrov
but Ban
Ki-moon's UN
didn't.
At
7:45 pm on
Thursday, when
Serry and his
two aides left
their meeting
with
Pascoe, in the
General
Assembly the
afternoon
group of heads
of state
were still
speaking. Some
of the evening
session could,
Inner City
Press was
told, be moved
to Friday
morning, which
could push
Abbas' speech
back
as well.
In the
waiting, not
only the
Bosnia /
Republica
Srbska issues
identified
yesterday by
Inner City
Press but also
questions
about Gabon's
and even
Nigeria's vote
were raised.
In this
scenario, the
US wouldn't
even have to
veto.
Serry &
aides leave
North Lawn at
7:45 pm:
Lavrov not
shown
Earlier
on
Thursday,
Inner City
Press asked
many Security
Council
delegations
what they
expect to
happen next.
One
pro-Palestine
Permanent
member said
the request
for membership
should move
"as
quickly as
possible."
Another member
predicted that
given
opposition,
things will
move slower. A
third
predicted that
Abbas'
request will
be a topic in
the Security
Council's
Middle East
debate
scheduled for
Tuesday,
September 27.
Will Serry
have reached
Lavrov
by then? Watch
this site.
* * *
On
Palestine,
Ashrawi Says
US Uses
"Blackmail,"
Hopes
Republica
Srbska in
Bosnia Does
Right
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 21
-- Long time
Palestinian
advocacy Hanan
Ashrawi was at
the UN on
Wednesday, and
Inner City
Press asked
her about
votes in the
Security
Council for
Palestine's UN
membership.
Ashrawi,
asked
about the
figure of nine
supporters,
said "we're
working at
it." She
complained
that the US is
"pressuring,
cajoling, even
blackmailing"
countries to
vote against
Palestine. She
said that
"Third World
countries...
the weak"
don't like to
feel they are
being
browbeaten.
She said the
US should have
put this
energy into
promoting
peace.
Informed
Balkan
sources have
for weeks told
Inner City
Press that the
Republica
Srbska portion
of the Bosnian
government
does not want
to vote in
favor of
Palestine, and
that on this
matter that
would lead to
an abstention.
Inner City
Press asked
Ashrawi about
Bosnia,
Republica
Srbska and a
possible non
affirmative
vote.
On
camera ,
Ashrawi said
"we hope the
Bosnians take
the right
decision and I
think the Serb
member of the
tri sy should
und this is in
fav just it is
an imperative
and a
responsibility."
Click
here
for YouTube
video,
from Minute
1:06.
Will
Republica
Srbska
"understand"
that? Or who
will reach out
and (counter)
"cajole" them?
Watch this
site.
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reports
are
usually also available through Google
News and on Lexis-Nexis.
Click
here
for a Reuters
AlertNet
piece by this correspondent about Uganda's
Lord's Resistance Army. Click here
for an earlier Reuters
AlertNet piece about the Somali
National Reconciliation Congress, and the UN's
$200,000 contribution from an undefined trust
fund. Video
Analysis here
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