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On
Syria, No UNSC
Agreement on
Sovereignty,
Amid UN
Censorship
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 19 --
When the UN
pulled the
plug on the
Intra-Syrian
Talks, or as
envoy Staffan
de Mistura
said mereby
pushed them
back to
February 25,
de Mistura
said that the
UN "is not
prepared to
hold talks for
the sake of
talks."
On
February 19,
Russia
convened a UN
Security
Council
meeting and
proposed a
draft
resolution on
the
sovereignty
and
territorial
integrity of
Syria. Western
power, as
they're
called, were
dismissive the
draft.
Inner
City Press --
in the middle
of being thrown
out of the UN
for seeking to
covering
meetings in
the building,
click here for
that --
talked its way
through a UN
Security block
at the Council
stakeout and
asked Turkey's
Permanent
Representative
Cevic if his
country would
send in ground
troops. He
said only if
part of a
multinational
force.
Also at
the stakeout -
with a UN
Security
"minder" still
trailing Inner
City Press,
like one of
Ban Ki-moon's
thought police
as one wag put
it -- Inner
City Press
asked the
President of
the Council
for February,
Venezuela's
Rafael
Ramirez, if he
would convene
and emergency
meeting if
Turkey or
Saudi Arabia
were to send
in ground
troops. He
said yes, he
would convene
such a meeting.
But as
things stands,
even with Ban
Ki-moon's
censor
Cristina
Gallach
receiving
calls to delay
and reverse
her decision,
Inner City
Press could
not cover such
an emergency
Security
Council
meeting.
We'll
have more on
all this.
On
February 16,
Inner City
Press asked
Syrian
Ambassador
Bashar
Ja'afari about
de Mistura's
and Ban
Ki-moon's
explanations
of why those
talks ended -
and about the
UN saying Ban
was misquoted
in or
misinterpreted
by the
Financial
Times.
Ja'afari said
that the UN
would rather
blame itself
than the
opposition,
because then
the UN would
get push-back
from
“Westerners.”
Ja'afari said
that de
Mistura's
deputy only
provided him
with a partial
list of the
opposition
delegations as
the talks were
ending.
Ja'afari
called them
badly
organized.
Before
Ja'afari
spoke, the
Security
Council's
president for
February
Rafael Ramirez
of Venezuela
told reporters
that the
Council's
members agreed
to tell Turkey
to comply with
international
law.
Associated
Press - click
here for AP's
UN rape
reporting on
Feb 15 - asked
if that meant
all
members.
All to
different
degrees, was
the answer.
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