In
UN
Peacekeeping
Committee,
Canadian Draft
Opposed by NAM
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
March 4 --
Trouble has
been brewing
for more than
a month in
the UN's
Special
Committee on
Peacekeeping
or C-34. And
now it has
gone public,
as it were,
with a notice
in the UN
Journal that
the
meeting set to
be held today
has been
postponed.
"The
meetings of
the Working
Group of the
Whole of the
Special
Committee
on
Peacekeeping
Operations,
scheduled for
Monday, 4
March 2013,
have been
postponed
to a later
date, to be
announced in
the Journal."
Why?
Chairperson
Rivas
of Canada,
numerous
sources
complain to
Inner City
Press, has
ignored the
views of most
of the C-34's
more than 140
members,
particuarly
those in the
Non-Aligned
Movement.
Rivas has
tried, on
his own, to
distinguish
procedural
issues in a
way proponents
found
“insults.”
Back
on January 25,
sources tell
Inner City
Press, Canada
set up
a
working lunch
to discuss the
working
methods. But
concerns were
voiced by
multiple
delegations;
“the chair
expressed the
intention
to find a way
to make sure
that the
non-operative-,
and
corresponding
operative
paragraphs
will, somehow,
be linked
during the
negotiations.”
The
NAM delegation
voiced
criticism
[even then]
towards the
Chair before
proposing to
all delegates
to stabilize a
"huge amount"
of last year's
report. A
lengthy
discussion
on the
definitions of
"stabilization"
and
"standardization"
was the
result. In the
end the,
broadly
supported,
agreement was
that
all
delegations
will submit a
proposal
regarding the
chapters and
sub-chapters
they are
willing to
stabilize
during a later
meeting at
the Canadian
mission.
And
that didn't
work out,
either.
Meanwhile
DPKO's
Herve Ladsous
proceeds
with UN drones,
even though
after his
presentation
last year to
the
C-34 many
members
complained to
Inner City
Press. This is
among the
reasons
there's so
little
overseeing of
UN
Peacekeeping
at the UN.
Watch this
site.
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