At
UN, Syria
Praises
Jeremic as
Heavyweight,
Critiqus
Qatari Ex-PGA
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 4 --
Syria UN
Ambassador
Bashir
Ja'afari had
many
duels with
Qatar's Nassir
Abdulaziz
Al-Nasser
while the
latter was
President of
the General
Assembly,
culminating in
UN Television
being
turned off
when Ja'afari
spoke.
On
October 4, on
UNTV, Inner
City Press
asked Ja'afari
about new PGA
Vuk
Jeremic and
about Nassir
Abdulaziz
Al-Nasser. Video
here, from
Minute
14:09.
Ja'afari
lashed
out at Nassir
Abdulaziz
Al-Nasser, and
praised
Jeremic as a
"heavyweight."
Later it was
noted that
Nassir
Abdulaziz
Al-Nasser
repeatedly
offered UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon a
private jet to
travel for
free.
Ban has since
named Nassir
Abdulaziz
Al-Nasser as
High
Representative
on the
Alliance of
Civilizations.
By
contrast,
Ja'afari told
Inner City
Press:
"I
think the
former PGA
harmed his
personal
reputation,
the
credibility
of his
country's
policy and the
United Nations
by misusing
his
mandate and
the very
important
podium of the
General
Assembly. I
think that he
tried to use
the national
agenda of his
country and to
dictate this
national
agenda on the
Member States
as a whole...
"You
may remember
the procedural
and political
mistakes he
made towards
the point of
view of my
country as
well as toward
myself. In
these
wrongdoing,
procedural and
political, he
crossed the
line. He
wasn't
diplomat. He
didn't act
responsibly.
"In
one of these
meetings, the
former PGA
stopped the
translation
one
time, and
stopped
recording the
session, for
the first time
since
1945. He on
many occasion
manipulated
the rules and
procedure of
the
session and
meetings of
the General
Assembly.
"The
new PGA will
be by all
means
different in
his approach,
his analysis,
from former
PGA. He is a
real
heavyweight, a
trouble
shooter, a
professional
diplomat... I
guess that he
will not fall
in the same
trap in which
the former PGA
had fallen.
My
minister met
with the new
PGA and they
discussed the
best ways to
help Syria,
Government and
people, to
achieve
national
dialogue and
to implement
the Kofi Annan
Six Point Plan
as well as
other
instruments
adopted by
consensus with
regard the
Syrian crisis.
We
look forward
to working
with him very
closely."
Watch
this site.
, 
