On
Polio, SPLM
Wanted Meeting
UN Found
UNnecessary,
No Answers
on Abyei
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 11 --
Why did the
planned polio
vaccination in
Southern
Kordofan and
Blue Nile
states not
take place?
Inner City
Press on
Monday asked
UN
Humanitarian
operations
chief John
Ging if
the SPLM-North
rebels were as
reported
requesting not
to deal with
Sudanese
officials. Video
here, from
Minute 15:35.
Ging
replied that
the "technical
agreements"
for the
vaccination
were in place,
and that the
UN had agreed
with Khartoum
that no more
meetings were
needed. But
the SPLM-North
felt
differently,
and said
so. When Sudan
did not show
up for the
final meeting,
the
vaccination
campaign was
off.
Inner
City Press
asked
November's
Security
Council
president Liu
Jieyi
about any
"allocation of
blame" between
Sudan and the
rebels. Video
here, from
Minute 2:28.
He replied
that the
Council is
working right
now on a way
to
enable the
vaccination.
Will this mean
a press
statement or
presidential
statement?
UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous also
briefed the
Security
Council
behind closed
doors, but
unlike his
predecessors
-- and unlike
Ging, and in
the past Haile
Menkerios
-- provided no
information on
the topics,
including
Abyei, the
referendum and
the his still
not released
report on the
UN's failure
to protect the
Dinka Ngok
Paramount
Chief there.
This
lack of
transparency
of UN
Peacekeeping
under Ladsous
is becoming
more and more
pronounced. At
Monday's UN
noon briefing,
Inner City
Press said it
it had
questions
about the
Democratic
Republic of
the
Congo and
about Lebanon.
(UN
Peacekeeping
has missions
in both
places.)
Spokesperson
Martin
Nesirky said,
Choose one.
But on Inner
City Press'
question of
what Ladsous'
MONUSCO
mission is
doing about
reports of
arrests and
even robbery
of civilians
in Kiwanja and
Bunagana,
Nesirky had
nothing. Still
the Lebanon
question,
about spying,
could not be
asked. This is
the UN, and
Ladsous' UN
Peacekeeping.
Watch this
site.
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