UNITED
NATIONS, May
17 -- Now the
UN says that
the news of
Golan Heights
peacekeepers
being taken
hostage "came
out in a
conversation"
between UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous "with
a few
journalists."
This
is what
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesman
Eduardo Del
Buey told
Inner City
Press after
the Press
asked when
Ban's Office
became aware
of the
kidnapping.
Serious
questions
have been
raised about
Ladsous'
knowledge of
involvement
from Qatar in
the
kidnappings; a
Permanent
Representative
on Friday
told Inner
City Press
that is why
Ladsous and
Ban's Office
downplayed
or tried to
pre-spin news
of the
kidnapping by
spoon-feeding
only
scribes.
"I
don't... I'm
not going to
discuss that
with you," Del
Buey
answered,
adding that
after Ladsous'
"conversation,"
his
Office put out
a Note to
Correspondents
"last night."
Actually,
Ban's Office
only put that
out after 8 am
on Friday.
Del Buey, when
Inner City
Press emailed
him and three
of Ladsous'
spokespeople
at
7:30 pm on
Thursday
replied to all
that "Jo, this
one is yours!"
But
"Jo" -
Josephine
Guerrero --
didn't send
Inner City
Press
even
the canned
paragraph
until after 11
pm; it was
even more
belatedly sent
out by Ban's
Office after 8
am the next
day.
Del
Buey cut off
Inner City
Press' follow
up question,
then said only
one
more question.
Inner City
Press asked
Del Buey, as
it has asked
Guerrero and
Ladsous' other
spokespeople,
for their
comment or
read-out on
Syrian
ambassador
Bashar
Ja'afari's
meeting on
Thursday
with Ladsous.
Del Buey
refused that,
as well.
Another
journalist
asked Del Buey
to whom
Ladsous gave
this
information,
and
how they were
selected. Del
Buey said, you
have to ask
Mr... you have
to ask DPKO.
But doesn't
Ban's Office
have some
duty?
So
the Free
UN Coalition
for Access
has protested
and will
continue to
protest this
travesty, in
which news of
attacks on
peacekeepers
is
withheld and
spoon-fed to
Ladsous-friendly
journalists
"in
conversation."
Pamela
Falk of CBS
News, the
president of
UNCA, was
present during
the
interchange
and said
nothing.
UNCA's
"leadership"
is
apparently
fine with
Ladsous
excluding even
most of UNCA's
dues
paying
membership who
cover Syria or
peacekeeping,
because these
leaders
benefit from
this insiders'
game. Some
correspondents
association.
Actually,
since they use
anonymous
social media
accounts
to defend
Ladsous,
they're now
the UN
Cowardice
Association.
Watch
this site.
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