UNITED
NATIONS, May
22 -- Another
UN peacekeeper
was detained
in the Golan,
Syria
Permanent
Representative
Bashar
Ja'afari told
Inner City
Press
on Wednesday
morning.
Last
time this
happened, the
UN and its
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations did
not announce
the detention.
Rather it came out
in a
"conversation"
by DPKO
chief Herve
Ladsous to
friendly
reporters, and
was only
announced to
others hours
later.
This
time, Inner
City Press has
asked Ladsous
three -- now
four --
spokespeople,
as well as
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon office
"for
confirmation
or denial that
another UNDOF
peacekeeper
was detained;
Syria Perm Rep
just told
Inner City
Press that he
informed DPKO
of
it. UN
Peacekeeping
says it
answers
question: so
here's the
question,
for answer
asap."
Ban's
envoy Robert
Serry in his
briefing to
the Security
Council
talking
about chemical
weapons but
did not
mention that
UN system
panelist
Carla Del
Ponte spoke of
strong
suspicions of
use by the
rebels, not
the
government.
Serry
also said that
the UN is
focused on
Israel -
Palestine. But
as Inner
City Press has
reported since
Monday, UNTV
cut off during
the speech
by Palestinian
negotiator
Saeb Erakat.
UN official
Stephane
Dujarric,
hours after
Inner City
Press asked
(and the Free
UN
Coalition for
Access
protested)
blamed it on a
"clerical
error"
but said the
video would go
online on May
21.
It
did
not, and
still has not.
The Observer
Mission of the
State of
Palestine has
asked the
relevant
Committee, and
others.
Meanwhile
the
Security
Council
itself, Inner
City Press has
learned again,
will
be moving to
its new / old
spot this
coming long
weekend
starting May
24.
This
makes the Media
Access
Guidelines
shown to
FUNCA, which
for
the first time
would ban the
use of the
UNSC stakeout
as a workspace,
so
problematic.
Dujarric is
also,
apparently, in
charge of
these rules,
with his
partners.
We'll have
more on this.
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