On
Syria,
Annan to Give
Assad an
Extension,
Guehenno to
Brief SC, -ICP
Sources
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
April 9, updated
-- Kofi Annan
is moving to
give Syria's
Assad an
extention to
the supposed
April 10
deadline,
sources
exclusively
tell Inner
City Press.
In the hours
after reporting
on Monday that
the
UN Security
Council would
Tuesday get a
briefing on
Syria and a
letter from
Kofi Annan,
Inner City
Press learned
more.
Sources
specify to
Inner City
Press that the
Tuesday video
availability
will be by
Jean Marie
Guehenno,
Annan's
non-Arab
League deputy
and former
head of the UN
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations.
Update
of 5:30 am
April 10:
Annan
spokesman
Fawzi has
replied to
Inner City
Press that "Mr
Annan is
sending a
leter to the
Council today,
with an update
on
developments
in the Syria
crisis, Mr
Guehenno will
be on stand-by
by VCR from
Geneva to
answer any
questions the
Council
members may
have."
More
explosively,
the sources
tell Inner
City Press
that Annan
will be
granting
Syria's Bashar
al Assad an
extension to
meet his
previous
commitment
to Annan's Six
Point plan,
including the
supposed April
10 deadline
-- it will,
the sources
told Inner
City Press, be
extended,
probably
to April 12.
"Kofi
has
mediator's
disease," one
of the sources
told Inner
City Press.
"He'll never
want to admit
that he's
failed, that
he's been
played. And so
he'll just
give an
extension. But
when will he
lose
all
credibility?"
Another
source
earlier on
Monday told
Inner City
Press the buzz
is that the
Kofi
Annan
Foundation has
been raising
money "for
Syria work."
Inner City
Press
submitted this
as a question
to Annan's
spokesman
Ahmad Fawzi
but has yet to
receive a
response. When
one comes in
it
will be
published. It's
now understood
that a
response will
arrived at
latest Friday,
April 13.
The context is
that Fawzi declined
to answer
Inner City
Press' weeks
ago question
of whether the
Kofi Annan
Foundation has
solicited
funds from
regional
countries with
an
interest in
Syria.
So
where, one
might ask, is
the Arab
League
nominated
deputy Nassar
El-Kidwa in
all
this? Watch
this site.
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