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On W.
Sahara, As
Mezouar Tells
ICP MINURSO
Fully
Functional, No
Ban Comment
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
Follow up to
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 22
-- The UN of
Ban Ki-moon,
which gave in
to Morocco's
demand to pull
out 83 members
of its MINURSO
mission in
Western Sahara
and has yet to
get most of
the returned,
is now
proposing to
given in
further,
sources
exclusively
told Inner
City Press on
September 8.
On September
22, when Inner
City Press
asked
Morocco's
foreign
minister
Salaheddine
Mezouar about
MINURSO and
was told it is
already “fully
functional,”
Ban's
spokesman
Dujarric would
not comment on
this. From the
UN transcript:
Inner City
Press: On
Western
Sahara, just
now, earlier
this morning,
the Foreign
Minister of
Morocco said
flatly that
full
functionality
has been
restored.
And so, I
wanted to
know, from the
Secretariat
side, have all
83 been
returned?
What is the
number?
Just
factually.
Spokesman:
I have no… I
mean, I heard
what the
Foreign
Minister
said.
I'm not going
to comment on
what he
said. I
will get you
an update of
what the
staffing level
is on MINURSO
[United
Nations
Mission for
the Referendum
in Western
Sahara] as
soon as I can
get one.
Seven hours
later,
nothing.
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