By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, May
21 -- When UN
official Ivan
Simonovic
emerged from
briefing the
Security
Council about
this trip to
Ukraine, Inner
City Press
asked him
about the
LifeNews
journalists
detained and
abused by
authorities
there on which
UN spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric had
no comment
when asked by
Inner City
Press.
Simonovic
said
he was aware
of the
detention, was
in contact
with the owner
of LifeNews
and had spoken
with Ukraine's
deputy
minister of
Foreign
Affairs. Video
here and
embedded
below.
Russian
Ambassador
Vitaly
Churkin, whom
Inner City
Press asked
about
LifeNews'
footage of “UN”
marked
helicopters
used by Kyiv,
said in the
Council's
closed door
session his
Western
colleagues did
not come to
the defense of
these
journalists as
they have for
others.
Churkin
said
his French
colleague --
that would be
Gerard Araud,
who on
April 15 told
a
correspondent
from Lebanon
“you are not a
journalist,
you are an
agent” --
had refused to
support the
Council urging
a de-esclation
in Ukraine.
On the
LifeNews
footage of the
“UN” marked
helicopter, on
which Inner
City Press has
four times
asked UN
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric
without
substantive
answer,
Churkin said
the UN
Secretariat
has NOT
provided any
response about
the “UN
Peacekeeping”
helicopter
use.
Voice
of America --
which by
Gerard Araud's
logic would
also be an
agent, to the
point of trying
to get other
media thrown
out of the UN
-- asked if
Churkin
questions the
elections
slated for May
25 in some but
not all of
Ukraine why
doesn't he
question the
June 3
election set
for Syria.
Churkin
responded that
Western
countries
praised
elections in
Afghanstan --
and also
confirmed that
Russia will
veto the
Franco-American
draft
resolution to
refer Syria to
the
International
Criminal
Court, calling
it
grand-standing.
While
Uruguay was
listed in a
European press
release as
sponsoring the
resolution,
they have
clarified that
they are NOT a
sponsor. Could
it be the
carve-outs?
Watch this
site.
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