UNITED
NATIONS, April
18 -- When UN
Security
Council
experts
re-convened
Thursday
afternoon on draft
Syria
humanitarian
“press
elements,”
some thought
the odds of
agreement were
low.
After
all, the
Security
Council hasn't
agreed much on
Syria, not
only two
vetoed
resolutions
but even draft
press
statements
about
terrorist
attacks.
"Press
elements” --
which were all
that
non-permanent
member
Australia
proposed --
are a form of
Security
Council action
even
below a press
statement. It
is an agreed
summary of a
meeting, which
is neither
translated nor
put on the
Council's web
site.
Still,
Inner City
Press showed
that the UN
Television
camera, on
which such
press elements
would be read,
was
disassembled.
But
as Council
members'
experts met,
breaking at
4:30 for some
to make
phone calls
about the
draft, things
got closer.
And the camera
went back up:
Tweeted photo
here.
Just
after six pm
the Security
Council
president for
April, Eugene
Richard
Gasana,
emerged and
told Inner
City Press
that there
would be
elements to
the press, in
about an
hour's time.
He
exclusively
told Inner
City Press
that, with
Rwanda's
experience of
the genocide
of 1994, it
would be
unacceptable
to preside
over a
Security
Council in
April which
could not
agree to at
least
something
on Syria.
Will
more be
possible
during what
remains of the
month? What
will Lakhdar
Brahimi
announce?
Watch this
site.
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