Before
Syria
Shutdown, Mood
Didn't
Consult,
Ladsous
Refuses ICP
Questions
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
June 20 --
After the June
15 memo
from the UN
Secretariat to
the Security
Council
members saying
the Syria
observers
would limit
their mobile
activities was
obtained and
exclusively
published
by
Inner City
Press at 10 pm
on Friday June
15, the UN
claimed there
was
"consultation"
with Security
Council
members before
the
decision was
made.
This
appears to be
false.
On
Monday June
18,
Inner City
Press came to
the UN and
asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
Associate
Spokesman
Farhan Haq
about this
"notice,
information
provided on
behalf of
DPKO, notice
on UNSMIS,
saying that
it stopped as
of six o’clock
Friday, pm."
Haq
said, "you
can take it
for granted
that General Mood's
decision was
preceded by
widespread
consultations
among all the
various
interested
parties,
including the
Secretary-General
and the
members of the
Security
Council."
But
on Tuesday
June 19 while
inside closed
door Security
Council
consultations,
multiple
sources tell
Inner City
Press, Mood
said that his
decision
had been made
by he himself
alone, without
consulting any
Security
Council
members.
So
on Wednesday
June 20 Inner
City Press
asked Ban's
lead spokesman
Martin Nesirky
to
explain the
difference,
and
specifically
if Herve
Ladsous the
head of
DPKO, whose
memo it was on
Friday, had
spoken with
France before
the
notification
was given.
Nesirky
did not
directly
answer the
Ladsous -
France
question,
instead saying
that
the
"consultations"
with "members
of the
Security
Council" that
his Associate
Haq had
referred to on
June 18
consisted of
nothing more
than the two
page written
notice of a
decision
already taken,
as exclusively
published by
Inner City
Press.
Nesirky said,
twice,
"Council
members were
informed." Video
here, from
Minute
6:22.
But is that
"consultations"?
Some
"consultations."
Since
the Ladsous
- France
question
wasn't answer,
Inner City
Press went
back to the
Security
Council, where
Ladsous was
speaking
vaguely
against
"caveats" and
about agreeing
with his
departed
Ambassador
Gerard Araud
that there
should be more
Francophone
troops in his
UN
Peacekeeping.
As
Ladsous left
the Council,
and after he'd
answered three
questions in
French for
another
correspondent,
Inner City
Press began to
ask him a
question.
"I
don't
talk to you,
Mister,"
Ladsous said,
now for the
third time.
The first
time, on
camera,
Ladsous
refused to
answer Inner
City Press
qustions on
the
introduction
of cholera
into Haiti,
and on he and
Ban Ki-moon
having as a
Senior Advisor
an alleged war
criminal, Sri
Lanka General
Shavendra
Silva.
Since then he
has taken to
issuing
partisan
statements,
later mocked
by those
concerned, to
hand-picked
reporters.
Watch this
site.
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