On
Syria,
Ban Slams
Assad Banning
Kidwa, But
Declined to
Confirm,
Censored
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNdislosed
Location,
June 7 -- Four
speakers
against
Syria's Assad
government
were scheduled
to start the
UN General
Assembly's 10
am session
dubbed "Syria
Superbowl II."
Things started
late, with the
Qatari
President of
the General
Assembly
saying the
UN's
credibility
is at stake.
He
is the one who
decided for a
previous high
profile Syria
session to
turn of UN
Television as
Syria's
Permanent
Representative
Bashar
Ja'afari began
to speak.
Beyond
Syria, he
killed of the
Security
Council reform
proposal of
the so-called
Small
Five, by
soliciting a
slam-dunk
letter from
Ban Ki-moon's
lawyer
Patricia
O'Brien, using
but never
releasing it,
until the
proposal
was withdrawn.
Ban
Ki-moon spoke
and
criticized the
Assad
government for
not letting in
Annan's Arab
League
nominated
deputy Kidwa.
But when Inner
City Press
first
reported on
and asked
about this
blockage, the
UN wouldn't
confirm it
(instead, it
demanded the
censorship of
an Inner City
Press, sourced
to Ambassadors
at the UN, of
a trip to
Syria by one
of the
Deputy's
and Ban's
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous.
After
that trip,
Ladsous
refused on
camera to
answer any
questions from
Inner City
Press, about
the UN taking
cholera to
Haiti and
accepting
alleged war
criminal Sri
Lanka general
Shavenda Silva
as a UN
adviser,
saying "Well,
Mister,
I will start
answering your
questions when
you stop
insulting
me and making
malicious and
insulting
insinuations."
Video
here,
at Minute
28:10.
When Syria's
Bashar
Ja'afari spoke
-- after a
notably
blackout by UN
Television
--he
questioned how
Ban could so
quickly judge
who killed who
in Houla.
Notably, Ban
still blurs
who killed
40,000 people
in Sri Lanka
in 2009; in
his UN,
raising the
question leads
to attacks and
threats of
expulsion,
non-acceditation.
Arab
League Araby
started with a
shout-out to
the PGA,
saying it was
his
first speech
in the GA
since the
Qatari was
elected. One
wondered if
Araby will
return to the
GA under the
next PGA to be
elected
tomorrow:
Serbia foreign
minister Vuk
Jeremic or the
lower profile
Lithuanian
Permanent
Representative.
Watch this
site.
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