Guinea
Bissau Coup
Gaining UN
Acceptance by
Attrition,
Sanctions
Violations
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 18
-- While Mali
after the coup
gets its own
mini
summit meeting
next week at
the UN, from Guinea-Bissau
the interim
president
brought in by
the coup,
Manuel Serifo
Mhanadjo,
is poised to
meet with the
UN Secretariat
of Ban Ki-moon
and thus be
legitimated.
Meanwhile
despite
a Security
Council travel
ban imposed on
coup leaders
including
General
Antonio Njai,
he has
reportedly
been traveling
through / with
the assistance
of such
countries as
Senegal and
Cote
d'Ivoire.
This
month's
Security
Council
president
Peter Wittig
was asked
about this
and said it is
still being
considered by
the Council
sanctions
committee
chaired by
Morocco.
Inner
City Press
notes that the
UN Office on
West Africa
head by
Algerian
diplomat Said
Djinnit is
based in
Senegal; the
UN has a large
and now
often silent
mission in
Cote d'Ivoire.
Are some
violations of
sanctions
taken
seriously and
others not?
Security
Council
member India
has cut back
on its imports
of cashews
from
Guinea Bissau;
the country is
trying to
renegotiate
its Angolan
bauxite deal.
But, as one
Council member
told Inner
City Press
offhandedly as
he left the
Council, as
least violence
on the ground
has decreased.
Some coups,
apparently,
are okay.
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