After
Obama
& Ban
Speak, US
Read-Out on
ISIL &
Ukraine,
Upcoming
GA
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 8 --
After US
President
Barack Obama
and UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon spoke
on September
8, it was the
White
House and not
the UN which
put out a
read-out. The
US read-out
mentioned
ISIL, but not
whether
Security
Council
approval
should be
sought for any
bombing in
Syria without
the
government's
consent.
On
Ukraine, the
US said “they
discussed the
importance of
an effective
monitoring
mechanism for
the cease-fire
in eastern
Ukraine.”
Previously,
leaked audio
discussed
former US, now
UN official
Jeffrey
Feltman
“getting” Ban
to send Robert
Serry to
Ukraine.
The issue here
is the UN's
(declining fig
leaf of)
independence.
One
wonders why
the UN didn't
put out its own
read out.
Could it be
because the US
agreed to
mention “the
Secretary-General’s
Climate
Summit”?
Or
could it be
the US' praise
of Ban on
ebola? The US
read-out began
“President
Obama spoke
today with
United Nations
Secretary-General
Ban
Ki-moon to
discuss the
need for
greater
international
assistance
to contain the
Ebola outbreak
in West
Africa.
President
Obama
thanked the
Secretary-General
for recent
steps taken by
the United
Nations to
coordinate the
global
response and
pledged
additional
U.S.
assistance to
bring the
outbreak under
control.” A
25-bed
hospital?
Meanwhile,
it's
reported that
“the United
Nations
Security
Council
session on
foreign
terrorist
fighters that
the President
will chair,”
as the
US read-out
puts it, will
be at 3 pm on
September 24
(rather than
on
September 25).
The afternoon
of the 24th
would overlap
or preempt the
speeches of
the heads of
state of
Bolivia,
Rwanda,
Jordan, the
Dominican
Republic,
Kenya, Costa
Rica,
Mongolia,
Nigeria,
Honduras,
Montenegro,
South Africa,
Switzerland,
Chad,
Estonia,
Equatorial
Guinea and
maybe even Sri
Lanka.
We'll have
more
on this.
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