On
Syria,
Russia Amends
Its Draft,
Deputy-Level
Meeting After
Kosovo Tuesday
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Partial
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
July 17 -- As
the Syria
resolution
showdown
looms, late
Monday French
Ambassador
Gerard Araud
told the press
that "no
one is raising
the Russian
draft."
But
Tuesday
morning
Russian Deputy
Permanent
Representative
Sasha Pankin
told the Press
that the Russian
draft --
which Inner
City Press first put
online,
here -- is
being amended
again.
UK
Ambassador
Mark Lyall
Grant stopped
and told the
press that
while the
vote on the
UK-table draft
is scheduled
for Wednesday
afternoon,
that
could be
extended if
there are
"serious
negotiations."
And
other
sources
exclusively
told Inner
City Press
that a DPR
level
meeting about
the Russian
draft has been
scheduled for
Tuesday
afternoon,
after a closed
door session
about Kosovo.
Nevertheless
Morocco's
Permanent
Representative
Loulichki told
the press that
there is no
meeting on
Syria
resolution(s)
on Tuesday.
After
hearing
from Pankin,
Inner City
Press directly
asked Araud of
Russia
amending its
draft. "Yes,"
he says, "they
have amended
their draft."
Moments
later
Herve Ladsous,
the fourth
Frenchman in a
row to head UN
Peacekeeping,
once again
refused to
answer ANY
questions from
Inner
City Press,
including on
DPKO killings
in the Congo
-- more on
that
soon.
The
Kosovo
session,
Pankin told
Inner City
Press, focused
not just on
two
Serbs recently
killed in
Kosovo, but on
what he called
the 1000
murders of
returning
Serbs in
Kosovo, of
which he said
only one
killer
voluntarily
turned himself
in to police.
He
also
mentioned a
visit to
Kosovo by
"fighters in
Syria."
Other talk of
a more recent
visit to
Kosovo by
Libyans, and
of two
more possible
recognitions
of Kosovo, by
Libya once the
government is
settled, and
prospectively
by Syria if
Assad is
overthrown.
There
are
side-stakes on
all this.
Watch this
site.
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