At UN,
French March
Has Congo,
Haiti and
Other
Colonies,
Ladsous' DPKO
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 25 --
With the UN
Security
Council
presidency set
to be taken
over in March
by France,
Inner City
Press is today
exclusively
publishing the
draft “Program
of Work” for
the month, here.
As Inner City
Press also
exclusively
reported late
last year,
Council member
Chad's program
was circulated
in advance by
Australia;
this shouldn't
only happen to
Elected Ten,
much less only
to African,
members of the
Security
Council.
As reflected
by the Program
of Work Inner
City Press is
putting
online today,
France plans
to hold
debates on
March 9 on the
European
Union, and on
March 25 on
Children and
Armed
Conflict.
Will they
inquire into
why their
Herve Ladsous'
mission in
South Sudan
conceal for a
full week the
February 15
seizing of
child
soldiers,
which Inner
City Press asked
the UN about
on February 24
and 25?
On March 4,
Libya is on
the agenda; on
March 5 it's
Yemen, where
according to
well-placed UN
sources France
long opposed
sanctions on
Ali Saleh
because of his
willingness to
give contracts
to French
company TOTAL.
There's Syria
too, that day.
And,
significantly,
"adoption" on
North Korea,
on which
selective
leaks to
scribes have
typically been
made.
There's
scheduled a
trip to the
Central
African
Republic,
Burundi and
Addis Ababa --
reported after
Inner City
Press did
by Al
Jazeera,
obviating
selective
retaliation --
from March 10
to 13. Inner
City Press had
the draft
“Terms of
Reference” for
the trip;
watch this
site.
(We
don't lightly
note retaliation,
after Cote
d'Ivoire
exclusives
being called a
"hostile act"
and for
example today
this.)
On March 17
it's Darfur,
where Ladsous'
UNAMID mission
covered up
mass rape in
Tabit in a
November 9,
2014 press
release which
has yet to be
retracted.
There's also
Lebanon that
day, and a
Troop
Contributing
Countries
meeting about
the DR Congo,
where Ladsous
has declined
to attack the
Hutu FDLR as
he did the
largely Tutsi
M23 - history
here, and
refusals
to answere
here, here and here
(Vine). If
the current French
government
cared about
the UN, it would
at least take
action on
this.
On March 18,
what else but
Haiti, and a
briefing on
the Council's
visit to other
former French
colonies?
On March 19, a
briefing on
MONUSCO in the
DR Congo --
will envoy
Martin Kobler
have by then
been named to
replace
Valerie Amos
atop OCHA, as
Inner City
Press has
reported on in
exclusives
credited by,
among others,
UK Channel 4,
here?
The rest of
the months is
blur or to be
boycotted. All
14 other
Security
Council
members have
the Press at
their reviews;
France has
until now - or
since Inner
City Press'
reporting on
Cote d'Ivoire
-- refuses;
watch this
site.
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