UNITED
NATIONS, March
25 -- On the
UN's probe of
Syria chemical
weapons,
after Syrian
ambassador
Bashar
Ja'afari on
Monday morning
told Inner
City Press his
country had
responded to
the UN's
“twenty
questions,”
UN spokesman
Martin Nesirky
wouldn't
confirm the
response,
Monday at
noon.
Minutes
later
at the
Security
Council
stakeout,
however,
Russia's
Vitaly
Churkin said
he understood
that Syria had
responded.
Churkin
leveled
two criticisms
at UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon, who
along with
Disarmament
chief Angela
Kane of
Germany,
Nesirky
confirmed, is
heading the
probe
preparations.
Churkin
said
Ban's UN is
resisting
including in
the mandate of
the probe the
goal of
finding out
WHO used the
chemical
weapons
allegedly used
near
Aleppo on
March 19. That
would seem
absurd.
Confirming
that
the inclusion
of Russian and
Chinese
experts on the
investigations
team had been
requested but
denied, on the
theory that
Permanent Five
members of the
Security
Council should
not be
included,
Churkin asked,
why not then
say no probers
from NATO?
Inner
City Press
thought, why
not “no EU”?
What about the
role of
Angela Kane of
Germany,
beyond what
Inner City
Press has
already
reported about
the quashed
probe of her
role in the
UMOJA computer
upgrade?
Bigger
picture,
Churkin beyond
again saying
that
the UK and
French request
for a wider
problem is
intended to
“delay or
derail” the
investigation
in the alleged
use of
chemical
weapons near
Aleppo on
March 19 said
that some are
experienced in
“manufacturing
allegations of
chemical
weapons” to
pursue
political
goals.
An
irony is that
France opposed
the US in this
in Iraq, but
now is the
requester
regarding
Syria. Watch
this site.
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