As
France Urges
No Changes, W.
Sahara Draft
Goes to
Silence, IAEA
Map
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UN
System,
April 19 --
While the
Group of
Friends on
Western Sahara
has
no African
members on it,
once it agreed
to a draft
resolution on
the
MINURSO
peacekeeping
operation,
it was
presented to
the wider
Security
Council as
largely
unchangeable,
with France
strongly
pushing this
position.
South
Africa, not
surprisingly,
spoke up
against the
process. The
UK, Inner City
Press
is told,
remained
silent. Now
the draft is
"under
silence"
procedure
until April 20
at 5 pm.
Beyond
Operative
Paragraph 3
which Inner
City Press has
previously
quoted,
here arre
Operative
Paragraphs 8
and 9:
"Invites
Member
States to lend
appropriate
assistance to
these talks;
9.
Requests
the
Secretary-General
to brief the
Security
Council on a
regular basis,
and at least
twice a year,
on the status
and progress
of these
negotiations
under his
auspices, on
the
implementation
of
this
resolution,
challenges to
MINURSO’s
operations and
steps taken
to address
them, and
expresses its
intention to
meet to
receive and
discuss his
briefings and
in this
regard,
further
requests the
Secretary-General
to provide a
report on the
situation in
Western
Sahara well
before the end
of the mandate
period;"
Even
amid loud
calls
for "freedom
of movement"
for the UN on
Syria, this is
the
euphemism for
Moroccan
restrictions:
"challenges to
MINURSO’s
operations."
Since
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon and
his French
head of
peacekeeping Herve "The
Drone" Ladsous
allowed
France
and Morocco to
twice water
down the
report on the
restrictions,
why have
confidence in
Ban's report
on
implementation?
Meanwhile
Inner
City Press has
discovered
that the UN
system's
International
Atomic
Energy Agency
portrays
Western Sahara
as a part of
Morocco, here:
http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/CNPP2010_CD/countryprofiles/Morocco/CNPP2010Morocco.htm
Watch
this site.
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