As
Spain Heads
UNSC, ICP Asks
of Libya
Draft, Burundi
Envoy, No W.
Sahara Meeting
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 5 --
Spain holds
the Presidency
of the UN
Security
Council for
October; Inner
City Press
asked its
Permanent
Representative
Roman Oyarzun
Marchesi
on October 5
about the pending
Libya
resolution,
the still non-existent
UN envoy to
Burundi
and why
there's no
Western Sahara
briefing on
the Program of
Work, as there
has been in
previous
Octobers.
Roman
Oyarzun
Marchesi
acknowledged
there have
been “some
difficulties”
on the part of
some members.
We are trying
to retune, the
EU pushing
forward, given
authorization
under Chapter
7 but only on
the high seas.
We hope it can
be adopted
soon. On
Burundi, his
Political
Coordinator
noted that it
is up to the
Secretary
General. And
on Western
Sahara, Roman
Oyarzun
Marchesi noted
that such
consultations
should involve
envoy
Christopher
Ross but he is
going to the
region, the
timing is up
to him.
Inner
City Press on
behalf of the
new Free
UN Coalition
for Access,
and in
Spanish,
asked
Roman Oyarzun
Marchesi to
hold as many
Q&A
stakeouts as
he can, after
Council
consultations.
(He said as
Council
president one
must speak
more
cautiously
than when in
national
capacity.) The
old UNCA, by
contrast,
asked only in
English; its
sidekick used
the question
it seemed to
get meetings
on Yemen and
Somalia
canceled in
favor of a
fundraising
luncheon.
On the
airstrikes on
the MSF
hospital in
Kunduz in
Afghanistan,
Roman Oyarzun
Marchesi said
that US
President
Barack Obama
has called for
an
investigation
into the
facts. (MSF
has said that
is not
enough). On
the new draft
resolution on
Syria, Roman
Oyarzun
Marchesi said
it “ will have
the normal
process of
consultations
with members
in the
Security
Council.”
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