On
Mali, Araud
Tells ICP
Feltman Briefs
UNSC Tuesday,
Chad Not
with Serval?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 21, updated
-- The
morning after
France
reportedly
bombed
Timbuktu in
northern Mali
-- first
video here
-- Inner City
Press
asked French
Ambassador
Gerard Araud
when the UN
Security
Council
will be
updated about
France's
military
intervention.
Araud
told Inner
City Press,
tomorrow
(January 22)
in an open
meeting. Inner
City Press
asked Araud
who would be
briefing.
Probably
Jeffery
Feltman, Araud
answered,
referring to
the American
chief of
the UN
Department of
Political
Affairs.
Earlier,
Chad's
Ambassador to
the UN told
Inner City
Press while
his country
is sending
troops to
Mali, they
will not be
with the
French
Operation
Serval. We are
sending more
troops than
other
countries, he
told
Inner City
Press, in
order to have
autonomy.
When
Inner City
Press asked
Araud about
Chad, Araud
said yes they
will
participate,
the
legislature
[in Chad] has
already
agreed. But
with
Serval? Watch
this site.
Update
of 2 pm --
Inner City
Press is
informed that,
along with
Feltman,
speakers
Tuesday
afternoon will
include the
Permanent
Representatives
of Cote
d'Ivoire (as
ECOWAS Chair),
Chad, Senegal
and Burkina
Faso.
Footnote:
A
"serval" is a
hissing cat;
some have
jokingly
called
France's
intervention
"Operation
Hissyfit,"
though no one
in Timbuktu is
laughing.
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