On
Syria, EU
Wants Pillay
UN June 28,
Houla Report
with Ban
Ki-Moon,
Censor
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
June 21 -- On
Syria in
closed door
Security
Council
consultations
on Thursday,
Inner City
Press has
learned,
European
members
proposed that
UN High
Commissioner
for Human
Rights Navi
Pillay brief
the Council on
June 28.
The
request was
not
immediately
agreed. One
non-Western
Council member
exclusively
told Inner
City
Press
afterward, We
we want to
stop the
killing or
just keep
grandstanding?
Meanwhile
at
Thursday UN
noon briefing,
Inner City
Press asked
the question
it had
wanted to
direct on Tuesday
to Herve
Ladsous, who
refuses Press
questions.
When will the
Department of
Peacekeeping
and its
observer
mission in
Syria complete
the requested
investigation
into the
killings in Al
Houla?
Secretary
General
Ban Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin
Nesirky, for
once, had an
answer, even
one written
from which he
read. Video
here, from
Minute 11:03.
Nesirky
said that
the Mission
has sent its
observations
on the Al
Houla killings
to the
Secretary
General, who
has sent them
to the
relevent UN
bodies
monitoring
human rights
in Syria. When
their review
is done -- or
changes or
censorship --
it will be
submitted by
the Secretary
General to the
Security
Council.
But
where will
things be
politically by
then?
Also
on Thursday
in front of
the Security
Council, where
for most of
the morning
Inner
City Press was
the only
reporter
present,
Ladsous'
deputy Edmond
Mulet
acknowledged
that the notice
sent to
Security
Council
members
on Friday June
15 has been
signed by him.
This notice, exclusively
reported and
published at
10 pm June 15
by Inner City
Press and
first called
"consultations"
by Ban's
Associate
Spokesman
Farhan Haq,
was later
re-characterized
by Nesirky as
mere
"informing."
Inner
City Press
asked Chinese
Ambassador Li
Baodong, and
Syria's Bashar
Ja'afari,
questions
on this on
Tuesday June
19, including
about the so
called
"Third Force"
in Syria.
This led to
others'
questions and,
according to
one
non-aligned
diplomat,
changed the
scope of the
debate.
Try
to forget they
are moving to
censor you or
throw you out
of the UN,
the diplomat
advised Inner
City Press.
Just do your
job reporting,
we send your
dispatches and
even tweets to
the capital --
and it will
all work
out. Here's
hoping. Watch
this site.
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