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On
Paris Attacks,
ICP Asks
France's
Borloo,
Burundi
Adviser Takes
Advantage
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 13 --
During the
terrorist
attacks in
Paris at the
Stade de
France,
the
Bataclan
theater and a
Cambodian
restaurant on
November 13,
at the UN in
New York as
chance would
have it former
French Energy
Minister
Jean-Louis
Borloo was
holding an
hour-long 4 pm
press
conference
about Energies
to Africa.
Inner
City Press
asked him how
his
sponsors,
from Bouygues
and Bolloré to
Total and Veolia,
stood to
benefit.
Another asking
him about
Akon. When he
asked for a
final
question,
Inner City
Press told him
about the
Paris attacks.
Merde,
he said, il
y'a une
attaque
terroriste?
Mais oui.
Vine
here.
US
President
Barack Obama
spoke on
television
about the
attacks, at
5:45 pm
Eastern,
before
Francois
Hollande did.
UN Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon chimed
in at 6:17 pm,
that he
“demands
the immediate
release of the
numerous
individuals
reportedly
being held
hostage in the
Bataclan
theater.”
The new
President of
the UN General
Assembly
Mogens
Lykketoft
issued a
statement at
6:33 pm; the
UN Security
Council,
through the
UN, issues a
Press
Statement at
7:13 pm
(before that,
a draft was
circulated to
friendly
scribes, a
retired
Reuters and
two US state
media,
presumably by
the French
mission which
let Borloo
blather on
long after the
attack become
known).
From
Burundi,
Pierre
Nkurunziza's
adviser Willy
Nyamitwe
leapt on the
Paris attacks
to wonder
rhetorically
why let
lawless
individuals
decimate
peaceful
innocents,
and asked why
a Security
Council
resolution as
on Burundi,
rather than
Press
Statement,
wasn't being
issued.
How
might this
impact the
holding of or
attendance at
the Paris
COP21 climate
change talks?
How will it
impact
refugees, with
France already
closing its
borders? Watch
this site.
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