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On W.
Sahara, ICP
Asks Why Ban
Weakened
Report, No
Comments On AU
Arria
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, April
254 -- Inner
City Press
obtained the
UN's Western
Sahara report
as it had been
approved by
Deputy
Secretary
General Jan
Eliasson on
April 18, and
exclusively
in full text
published it
on Scribd here,
days after the
UN threw its
journalistic
files right
out onto First
Avenue. Video
here and here (Periscope).
After
unexplained
delays
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
final report
came out, and
from the
Eliasson
version it
changes "must"
to "should" in
Paragraph 91
and drops and
entire line
from Paragraph
92: "The
Security
Council
confirmed the
Mission's
political
functions in
Resolution
1056 (1996)
and subsequent
resolutions
extending the
mandate." h/t
With whom was
Ban
"negotiating"
before this
changes and
omissions?
On April
25, Inner City
Press asked
Ban's
spokesman
about the
changes, and
about the
Arria formula
meeting it
exclusively
reported on
Friday, April
22, UN
transcript
here:
Inner City
Press: on
Western
Sahara, now
that the final
report is out,
in comparing
it to the
version that
was signed off
on by Deputy
Secretary-General
[Jan]
Eliasson,
there are a
number of
changes, all
of which go to
the
appeasement or
to the side of
Morocco.
For example,
paragraph 91
is switched
from "must do
something" to
"should".
[Paragraph] 92
drops a line
about the
mission's
political
function.
And paragraph
72 drops a
reference to
"investment
not benefiting
the residents
of Western
Sahara".
So, because of
these changes,
because this
has happened
in previous
years, what
explains
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