UNITED
NATIONS, May
31 -- Syria's
Permanent
Representative
Bashar
Ja'afari
was summoned
Thursday to
meet UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
chief of staff
Susana
Malcorra,
topic
undisclosed.
See Inner City
Press story
of Thursday
morning, here.
So
at the May
30 UN noon
briefing,
Inner City
Press asked
Ban's deputy
spokesperson
Eduardo Del
Buey:
Inner
City Press:
Syrian
Permanent
Representative
[Bashar]
Ja’afari said
he wrote to
the
Secretary-General
to complain
about Robert
Serry’s
briefing, that
it didn’t
mention
sufficiently
from his view
the
Golan Heights
and the
kidnapping of
peacekeepers.
Can you
confirm
the receipt of
that letter?
And also, he
was summoned
to meet with
Susana
Malcorra, and
I’d like to
know, one, if
it’s true, and
two, what the
purpose of the
meeting was.
Deputy
Spokesperson:
Well, Matthew,
I don’t have
any
information on
the
receipt of a
letter that
you refer to,
and secondly,
we don’t have
any
information on
any meeting
that may have
taken place.
As Mr.
[Hervé]
Ladsous said
yesterday, the
meeting
between United
Nations
officials and
members of the
diplomatic
corps of the
Permanent
Missions, we
don’t usually
report on
them.
But
we do, and
exclusively:
Malcorra's
topic to
Ja'afari was
to notify or
seek approval
of a new UN
system
official in
Damascus, for
the UN
Development
Program. And
Ja'afari
raised again
the UN's duty
to
ensure that
the Host
Country, the
United States,
made it
possible for
all UN
diplomatic
missions to
have bank
accounts.
"They are
trying to use
it as
leverage,"
Ja'afari told
Inner City
Press.
After
reports of
Al-Nusra
arrests in
Turkey, having
sarin gas,
Inner City
Press asked
Ja'afari what
he made of it.
He said, the
US trying to
distance
itself from
Al-Nusra.
When
US Ambassador
to Geneva
Eileen C.
Donahoe
announced she
had met Friday
with the
Commission of
Inquiry on
Syria, Inner
City Press posed
the
question:
did CoI member
Carla Del
Ponte say
anything about
her
"strong
suspicions" of
rebel use of
chemical
weapons, which
the Al Nusra
arrests in
Turkey seem to
support? So
far, no
response.
It's called social
media, not
a one way
street. Watch
this site.
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