To
Syria,
Annan's Team
Included Doss,
Michel, Fawzi
, Dann, McCoy,
Shehadeh - but
not al-Kidwa:
UN
Stonewalling
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
March 14 --
The day after
Inner City
Press exclusively
reported
that the Arab
League's
appointed
deputy to
Syria envoy
Kofi
Annan did not
in fact travel
to Damascus,
the UN refused
to confirm
his absence,
nor provide
the list of
those who went,
which Inner
City
Press has now
four times
requested.
But
well placed
sources have
provided Inner
City Press
with the list
the
Secretariat
provided to
Syria's
Mission to the
UN: beyond
Kofi Annan,
Ahmad Fawzi
, Alan Doss,
Nicolas
Michel, Robert
Dann, Ruth
McCoy, Rami
Shehadeh.
Inner
City Press
on March 14 at
noon asked Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
for
this list, and
even waited
until eight
hours later
the transcript
of
the UN's noon
briefing was
posted to see
if it was
included. But
it
was not,
consistent
with total
stonewalling
by Ban's UN.
Alan Doss was
a
UN official
who employed
nepotism in
Liberia and
then the
Congo, and
finally at
UNDP in New
York, telling
them to break
their rules
and
give a job to
his daughter,
then retiring
while the
damning Office
of
Internal
Oversight
Services
report
languished in
Ban's desk
without
action.
Nicolas
Michel was
Kofi Annan's
chief legal
officer, who
illegally
accepted
housing
subsidy from
the Swiss
government
while
ostensibly
working for
the
UN, in
violation of
UN Charter
Article 100.
Ahmad
Fawzi worked
at the UN
Department of
Political
Affairs under
Kofi Annan.
In full
disclosure, he
defended the
UN when it was
charged with
asking,
initially
successfully,
to have Inner
City Press
removed from
Google
News: that is,
censorship.
Robert Dann
was a former
aide to Alvaro
De Soto;
Ruth McCoy is
the
"Executive
Director" of
the Kofi Annan
Foundation; Rami
Shehadeh
worked for
UNSCOL -- was
he al-Kidwa's
doppelganger?
And
what is
the
relation
between the
UN's move to
Syria and this
Kofi Annan
Foundation?
Where does the
Kofi Annan
Foundation
raises it
funds?
These
questions
proliferate,
because of Ban
Ki-moon's UN's
stonewalling.
From the UN's
March 14
transcript:
Inner
City
Press: I
wanted to ask
you also about
Kofi Annan’s
trip. I am
now told that
there is a
letter from
the
Secretariat to
the Syrian
Mission naming
the
individuals
who would go
and that it
included Alan
Doss, Nicolas
Michel, Ahmad
Fawzi, and I
am just
wondering,
one, will
you confirm
those names,
and two, can
you say why
the Arab
League-nominated
Deputy Nasser
al-Kidwa
didn’t go? And
can you
clarify what
the role of
Mr. Guehenno
is? I have
been told that
Kofi
Annan chose
Mr.
Guéhenno
as his Deputy
and then this
was in some
way
overruled. Is
Mr.
Guéhenno
a Deputy or
not? Why
didn’t Mr.
Nasser
al-Kidwa go,
and with those
three names,
will you
confirm that
they went?
It’s not that
long a list.
Spokesperson
Martin
Nesirky: I’ll
let you know,
I’ll let you
know, Matthew.
Yeah?
Inner
City
Press: What
about Kidwa,
did he go or
not? I mean,
it’s kind
of important.
I’ll ask a
more pointed
question. It’s
been said
that President
Assad only
accepted Kofi
Annan’s visit
in his UN
hat. That all
attempts were
made to not
have it be a
joint Arab
League trip
and that’s why
Mr. Nasser
al-Kidwa did
not go. I
would
like you, can
you respond to
that?
Spokesperson:
As you know,
Mr. Annan is
the Joint
Special Envoy,
he is a
Special
Envoy of the
United Nations
and the League
of Arab
States. Yes?
Inner
City
Press: So, was
[inaudible]?
Even
eight hours
later (and
counting) the
answers were
not provided.
Watch
this site.
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