No
Answers on
Congo or Even
Camp for
Syrians by UN
of Ban and
Ladsous
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 3 --
These days it
seems that the
UN of
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon and
his top
Peacekeeper
Herve Ladsous
only have
eyes for
Syria.
During
General
Debate week,
neither man
said nearly
anything about
Darfur,
for example -
but now four
peacekeepers
have
been killed
there. Might
this have been
a good place
for the UN to
show some
leadership and
focus on,
during the
General
Debate,
particularly
since it
Ladsous
refused to
answer
another Press
question
about
Sudan: what is
the UN's role
on resolving
Abyei?
At
Wednesday's UN
noon briefing,
Ban's spokeman
Martin Nesirky
had no
answer to an
Inner City
Press question
about public
statements by
the
M23 mutineers
in Eastern
Congo that the
killings in
Goma are the
fault of the
government,
and they may
go in. Inner
City Press
asked, who
does the UN
think IS
responsible
for the
killings in
Goma?
How can
Ladsous'
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations,
which has the
large MONUSCO
mission there,
not have a
statement?
Instead,
the
answers given
and emailed
out are all
about Syria.
But even on
that, when
Inner City
Press asked
about public
reports that
UN staff
had fled the
Za'atari camp
for Syrian
refugees in
Jordan,
spokesman
Nesirky had no
information or
answer.
On
the breakdown
of talks,
after Ban
spoke with
each, between
the
presidents of
Malawi and
Tanzania --
which whom Ban
held a press
conference or
photo op on
Tuesday --
spokesman
Nesirky would
only
say, when
Inner City
Press posited
that the
General Debate
week had
not made
things better,
"That's your
analysis." Yes
it is.
Inner
City Press
asked again
about Abyei,
now the South
Sudan's top
negotiator
Pagan Amum has
said South
Sudan won't
negotiate
about it
anymore,
contrary to
Paragraph 8 of
the Communique
Nesirky
previously
referred the
Press too
after Ladsous
refused to
answer. Any UN
comment? Any
UN role? Watch
this site.
Update
of 1:17 pm --
when Turkey's
Permanent
Representative
Apakan went in
then exited
the Security
Council, Inner
City Press
asked him,
"Haiti related
or shell
related?"
He exclusively
told Inner
City Press,
"Shell
related."
Story soon.
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