Spain
Says W. Sahara
Envoy
Restored,
Talks
Peacekeeping,
UNSC Run
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 28
-- When
Spain's
foreign
minister Jose
Manuel
Garcia
Margallo came
to take
questions from
the Press on
Friday
morning, one
expected
something
about the
cutbacks and
protests.
Instead he
delivered a
litany of
bilateral
meetings,
including with
the Polisario
Front of
Western Sahara
and restored
UN envoy
Christopher
Ross.
Inner
City Press
asked him if
he thought any
progress was
being made on
Western
Sahara. He
spoke of free
determination,
consistent
with
resolutions of
the UN.
Ban
Ki-moon's
readout of his
meeting with
President
Mariano Rajoy
Brey
did not
mention
Western
Sahara, but
rather
expressed
"appreciation
for Spain’s
support" for
"UN
peacekeeping
in Lebanon and
elsewhere."
Inner
City Press
asked Jose
Manuel Garcia
Margallo what
IS Spain's
commitment to
UNIFIL in
Lebanon? Spain
is cutting
half of its
peacekeepers
there. He
replied that
Spain only
maked changes
after
consulting its
allies; he
said Spain has
peacekeepers
in Afghanistan
and Somalia as
well as
Lebanon.
Somalia?
Spain
is running in
two years for
one of two
Western
European and
Other
Group seats on
the Security
Council,
against Turkey
and New
Zealand.
Turkey would
seem assured
of victory. If
Australia
DOESN'T win
this
October, New
Zealand might
have a leg up
in two year's
time. Watch
this site.
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