On
Syria, ICP
Puts Ban's
Letter Online,
No Answer on
Brahimi &
Feltman
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 10 --
More than a
week after the
Syria report
of top
UN Peacekeeper
Herve Ladsous,
who seems to
have gone missing,
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon on
August 10
turned in a
bilingual
update to the
UN Security
Council. Inner
City Press is putting it
online before
10 pm, here.
Meanwhile
amid
reports that
long time UN
official
Lakhdar
Brahimi is to
be
named to
replace Kofi
Annan as envoy
to Syria,
Inner City
Press at 11
am Friday
witnessed the
entry of
Syrian
Permanent
Representative
to
the UN Bashar
Ja'afari to
meet with UN
political
chief Jeffrey
Feltman. A
well placed
source
exclusive told
Inner City
Press:
Brahimi will
be discussed.
And
so at Friday
UN noon
briefing Inner
City Press
asked Ban's
deputy
spokesman
Eduardo Del
Buey
Inner
City Press; I
was just in
the North Lawn
and I was told
that Mr.
Jeffrey
Feltman of DPA
[Department of
Political
Affairs] is
meeting…I
saw Bashar
Ja’afari go
in. I’m told
that the topic
is Mr.
Brahimi. So my
question to
you is:
because Martin
Nesirky was
willing to say
that there are
consultations
with the
permanent
members of the
Security
Council about
such an
appointment,
is Syria
and its
permanent
representative,
will they be
conferred with
prior
to an
announcement,
whoever the
name is?
Deputy
Spokesperson
Del Buey: I
will have to
check on that.
I don’t know
exactly who
the
consultation
list is
comprised of.
Nine
hours later,
no response.
But a well
place Gulf
source tells
Inner
City Press
Brahimi is the
Arab League's
nominee, and
will a more
anti-Assad
mandate than
Kofi Annan had
or acted
under.
It
is still time
to speed
through some
of Brahimi's
positions. The
US, Hillary
Clinton in
particular,
opposed
General
Douglas Lute
favoring
Brahimi over
Holbrooke on
Afghanistan in
2010.
Brahimi
also
said, in a
2008
interview,
that Europe is
a political
midget.
Brahimi
to
his credit in
March 2009
wrote, of Sri
Lanka, "being
a spectator
when 150,000
thousand
people are
trapped in a
death zone
is not an
option."
That is,
sadly, what
the UN did,
and now even
has as a
Peacekeeping
adviser to Ban
Ki-moon and
Herve Ladsous
one of the
generals
responsible
for the
killing, even
according to
Ban's own
experts'
report:
Shavendra
Silva.
Brahimi is on
the Advisory
Council of
the Sri Lanka
Campaign,
which of
attacks on
Inner City
Press wrote this,
about those
who "played
straight into
the hands of
the Government
of Sri Lanka's
attempts to
silence its
critics."
So
which Brahimi
would it be?
Watch this
site.
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