At
UN
on Africa, of
Rwanda
Bullets,
Bashir AU
Summit, Sudan
in
Communique
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
June 14 -- Of
the two UN
Security
Council
meetings on
Africa
held June 13
in North Lawn
Conference
Room 7, it was
the lower
profile one
about Congo
sanctions and
Rwanda that
was harder to
cover.
The
first,
with
the African
Union,
resulted
beyond this
in a bland
communique
which those
few who
covered it
merely quoted
without
explaining.
For that, we
just put
it online,
here.
Inner City
Press can add
that, in the
run up to
Wednesday's
session, there
were some
skirmishes
about the
Sudan
language, but
ultimately the
US and
Ambassador
Susan Rice
said if you
re-open Sudan,
we'll re-open
other
topics.
But
beyond
its
story
published from
the stakeout
on the North
Lawn's second
floor
yesterday,
Inner City
Press can now
report more
about the
Congo
sanctions
meeting,
chaired by
Azerbaijan.
In
the closed
door meeting,
the expert
made their
presentation
by, what else,
Microsoft
PowerPoint. It
involved
bullets from
Rwanda, but
could not
conclusively
prove the
bullets came
from the
government in
Kigali.
There
is
speculation
that
"Rwanda's"
involvement in
the Congo may
be
led by one or
more "rogue"
generals
interested in
natural
resources.
Bigger
picture,
with Rwanda
now the
African pick
to join the
Security
Council in
2013, eyes
turn not so
much to the
formal
election at
the UN in
October --
when as we've
reported
Finland,
Australia and
Lexembourg
will vie for
two WEOG seats
-- but to the
African Union
summit in
July.
Sources
tell
Inner City
Press that the
summit, slated
for Malawi,
may move to
Addis Ababa
"for Omar al
Bashir,"
indicted by
the
International
Criminal
Court.
They
say while
unlike it
might be
raised at the
summit that
Rwanda, given
the
allegations of
intervention
in the Congo,
is not the
right
candidate
at the right
time. But this
seems
unlikely.
Timely, and
moral high
grounds, is
everything.
Watch this
site.
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