Given
Ban's &
Jarba's 100
Word Read-Out,
Why Not in
Media Alert,
No Photo?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 29
-- Despite and
without
responding to
an urgent
September
24 protest
from Syria,
UN Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon met
Saturday at
his
(UN-provided)
residence with
Saudi-sponsored
Syria
rebel boss
Ahmad al
Jarba.
Inner
City Press
asked about
Syria's letter; Ban's
Office of the
Spokesperson
replied that
it was not
aware of the
letter.
Inner City
Press
immediately
provided a
copy and
asked, what is
the
Secretariat's
response to
the argument?
Separately, as
now applies to
SG's September
28" meeting
with al-Jarba?
A
full day has
elapsed, and
there has been
no response.
Rather, the
questions have
mounted. If it
was an
unofficial or
personal
meeting,
why was there
a read-out
more than 100
words long?
Why
was it not
listed on the
UN's Media
Alert? Why,
unlike Ban's
meeting
at the
residence with
his Syria
chemical
weapons prober
Ake
Sellstrom, was
there no
photograph?
The
murky meeting
has been
covered, not
surprisingly,
not only by
Agence
France Presse
(France
sponsored
Jarba in the
UN's ECOSOC
chamber)
but
now by
Saudi-supported
Al Arabiya.
Another Gulf
station which
is "all
in" against
Assad has seen
fit to
simultaneous
try to
rehabilitate
Sri Lanka's
Mahinda
Rajapaksa, who
killed at
least
40,000
civilians.
As
September ends
tomorrow, Ban
Ki-moon is
still
withholding
the UN's
report on the
UN's inaction
during this
2009 killing.
But unlike his
Saturday
meeting with
Jarba, he had
a photograph
taken with
Sellstrom
AND the first
page of his
report.
What is the
difference?
Look at the
positions of
the US and
France, and of
the Gulf
countries that
have
been allowed
to
increasingly
fund and
dominate in
the UN, and
the
answer is
obvious. But
we are still
awaiting
responses from
Ban's
spokesperson's
office, a full
day after the
questions were
asked.
Watch this
site.
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