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ICP
Asks If
Feltman Told
Envoys Only
Try Trump
Through Him,
Clinton
History
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 3 --
On December 13
after that
day's Security
Council
meeting on
Syria Inner
City Press
sought to
asked UN envoy
Staffan de
Mistura a
question. He
seemed to have
pegged Inner
City Press,
saying he knew
Inner City
Press would
ask him if he
was resigning.
(Actually, our
question has
been about his
previously
hiring Ban
Ki-moon's son
in law
Siddharth
Chatterjee,
whom Ban
recently
promoted to
the top UN job
in Kenya
without
recusing
himself. But
we digress).
Inner City
Press asked de
Mistura about
Palmyra -- he
said some 20%
of the
population
remains -- and
if he had in
fact managed
or scheduled
to meet Team
Trump. He'd
said he aimed
to; now he
told Inner
City Press he
would have no
comment.
Since
then Inner
City Press has
been told that
UN Under
Secretary
General for
Political
Affairs
Jeffrey
Feltman has
asked / told
UN envoys to
only try to
reach out to
Team Trump
through him.
To some this
seemed absurd,
since Feltman
is famously
shown sitting
behind and
serving
Hillary
Clinton as she
uses one of
her devices.
UN Spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric,
bragging he'll
stay on for at
least six
months, told
Inner City
Press he's not
aware of any
such directive
by Feltman.
But what does
that mean?
Dujarric
answered only
two and a half
of Inner City
Press' 22
questions from
December 27 to
December 30,
when he and
his Office
were paid, and
on January 3
replied to a
week-old
question by
saying, I
could check.
But will he?
Watch this
site.
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