At
UN
on Syria,
Sanctions, ICC
& Freedom
of Religion
Spell Resolution
Trouble
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 28
-- As the
European
members of the
UN Security
Council on
Wednesday said
they were
getting Russia
and others on
board with
their
resolution on
Syria, another
Council member
told
Inner City
Press that the
disagreements
go beyond
including or
not
including a
paragraph
threatening
sanctions in
15 days.
"There's
also
the
International
Criminal
Court," the
source told
Inner City
Press,
"freedom of
religion and
how to
encourage the
opposition
to negotiate
with the
government."
The
Europeans
were to
circulate a
new draft on
Wednesday
night, for
consultations
at the expert
level on
Thursday
afternoon.
Inner
City Press
asked Syrian
Ambassador
Bashar
Ja'afari about
his foreign
minister's
meeting with
Ban Ki-moon,
and about the
position of
Turkey.
Ja'afari at
UN, fruitful
Ban &
distant Turkey
not shown
Of
the Ban
meeting,
Ja'afari told
Inner City
Press, "the
meeting was
good, it was
fruitful -
tense but
fruitful, like
everything in
diplomacy."
Of
Turkey,
Ja'afari told
Inner City
Press, "They
have their own
agenda, we
have our own.
The gap is
getting
distant
between the
two agendas."
Given
the dust up
in which the
Turkish
security of
prime minister
Erdogan beat
up UN
Security, some
found irony in
Syria's
Ambassador
praising Ban
and
criticizing
the Turks. But
so it goes at
the UN.
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