On
Syria,
Russia Will
Raise Its
Envoy Request
in UNSC on
Wednesday,
Paying
Non-Voter in
GA Mulls Al
Qaeda
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 21 --
In front of
the UN
Security
Council
Tuesday
morning, the
Permanent
Representatives
of the UK and
Morocco were
asked about
Russia's
public
statements
that it was
asking for a
UN
envoy or
representative
to Syria, on
humanitarian
issues. Both said
they
hadn't heard
of it, at
least in the
Council.
A
Russian
diplomat
scoffed to
Inner City
Press that the
statement had
been put on
the Internet
and Twitter,
and pushed out
by ambassadors
in Lebanon and
elsewhere. We
all read these
things, he
said. But
anyway we will
raise it
tomorrow in
consultations,
after the
piracy
briefing.
A
usually well
informed
diplomat,
after
attending
Brazil's
"Responsibility
While
Protecting"
event at the
UN Tuesday
afternoon,
told Inner
City Press he
at least
wasn't aware
of Russia's
proposal. He
added, perhaps
joking, that
"the Russian
who works
for OCHA in
Geneva" was
perhaps the
envoy "they
have in
mind."
Inside
the
Responsibility
while
Protecting
meeting, Inner
City Press
asked
Saudi Arabia's
Permanent
Representative,
"any envoy?"
We're working
on it, he
replied. But
Ban Ki-moon
was setting
off,
later that
day, on yet
another trip,
this time for
a week
including
to Zambia and
Angola.
Syria's
Ja'afari with
Brazil PR
& FM on
Feb 21, (c)
MRLee
The Permanent
Representative
of one
of the
countries
which chose
not to vote on
the Syria
resolution in
the General
Assembly on
February 16
told Inner
City Press his
reason: a
concerns about
the role of Al
Qaeda, and who
would take
control from
Bashar al
Assad. The
country is a
US ally. Watch
this site.
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