UNITED
NATIONS, April
30 -- From
whom on Syria
did UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon hear,
between April
4, when Syrian
Ambassador
Bashar
Ja'afari said
he had a deal
with the UN's
Angela Kane
for access for
a chemical
weapons
investigation
in Khan al
Assad near
Aleppo, and
April 5 when
Ja'afari said
Ban "went back
on the deal"?
While
Ban Ki-moon
did not take
questions
during his
"press
encounter"
on April 29,
on April 30
Inner City
Press asked
Ban's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
just this. Did
Ban receive
new
information
during that
time frame,
when he was in
Madrid for the
UN Chief
Executives
Board
meeting?
With
whom did Ban
Ki-moon speak
in that time -
for the P3
(France, UK
and
United
States)?
Nesirky
refused
to answer this
question. Video
here from
Minute 10:42
and 23:20.
He
said, twice,
that the UN
consistently
conveyed to
Syria that
there were
additional
allegations,
in letters
dated March 21
and 28, and
April 3 and
April
5.
But
as Inner City
Press asked,
the April 3
letter from
Angela Kane
stated
that "I wish
to confirm
that the
investigation
mission will
look
at the
specific
incident
brought to his
attention by
your
Government
and
investigate
the facts
related to the
reported
incident on 19
March 2013 at
Khan al Asal."
Kane
on April 3
also wrote
that "the
Secretary-General
continues to
assess the
reports
submitted by
the
Governments of
France and the
United
Kingdom."
But
by April 5,
that
"continuing to
assess"
appears to
have
reached the
conclusion,
canceling
according to
Ja'afari a
final
technical
meeting to
begin the
probe at Khan
al Asal.
So
to whom DID
Ban Ki-moon
speak between
April 3 and
the April 5
letter?
He was in
Madrid. We aim
to have more
on this.
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