At
UN,
Ban's Quiet
Diplomacy
Veils Abuse in
Haiti, Bahrain
from
Saudi Meeting
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 19
-- At the UN on Monday,
so much
movement and
so
little truth.
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon met
with Haitian
President
Michel
Martelly and
issued a read
out that
didn't even
mention
the abuse
by Uruguayan
UN
peacekeepers
that his
Office said
it being taken
so seriously.
Nor was cholera
mentioned.
Ban
met
with the
the foreign
minister of
Saudi Arabia
Saud Al-Faisal
and his read
out
mentioned a
discussion of
Yemen but not
of Bahrain,
despite for
example Saudi
Arabia's
deployment of
troops to
Bahrain and unrest
there even
this week.
Inner
City Press
Monday at noon
asked Ban's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
whether in
fact
Bahrain was
discussed,
noting that Ban has
previously
been spoken to
by Saudi
Arabia about
Bahrain.
Nesirky said
that he didn't
know,
that the read
out said tha
Ban and "the
Foreign
Minister
exchanged
views on a
number of
important
issues in the
region,
including
Yemen."
But
did they
discuss
Bahrain?
Nesirky
wouldn't say.
Video
here.
Ban and FM of
Saudi Kingdom,
Arab Spring
& Bahrain
not shown
Inner
City Press
has previously
reported,
based on well
placed sources
inside Ban's
Department of
Political
Affairs, that
after Ban
proposed
sending
DPA's Oscar
Fernandez
Taranco to
Bahrain, the
Saudi's called
Ban and
"reamed him
out."
After that,
Ban canceled
the trip of
Taranco, and
there has been
no envoy.
Some
things,
apparently, go
without
saying. Watch
this site.
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Libya
Mission
of UN Headed
by Brit &
Finn,
German Coming
3d, Juppe Says
NATO Will Keep
Bombing
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 19
-- Two weeks
after Inner
City Press
wrote that
Finn Georg
Charpentier
would be named
deputy chief
to Brit Ian
Martin in
heading up the
UN's mission
in Libya, on
Monday
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
confirmed both
postings, then
refused to
answer
criticism
about them.
Video here,
from Minute
25:38.
Inner
City Press
asked for confirmation
of its next
scoop, that
the Number
Three official
in the UNSMIL
mission will
be the German
Hansjoerg
Strohmeyer,
chief of the
Policy
Development
and Studies
branch with
the UN Office
for the
Coordination
of Political
Affairs."
Nesirky
said, "I've
read out two,
it's not
enough for
you, you want
the third."
But Inner City
Press reported
on Charpentier
getting the
deputy post,
from sources
inside the UN
Department of
Political
Affairs,
back on
September 1.
As
Inner City
Press
wrote on
September 14,
"Three top UN
jobs on Libya
-- four if you
count
[Canadian
elections
expert Craig]
Jenness -- and
no Africans or
Arabs, after
all the
planning was
done in New
York by a
Brit."
Twice
Inner City
Press asked
Nesirky to
respond to
criticism from
within the
UN's own
Department of
Political
Affairs that
Africans, and
Arabs, have
been cut out.
Nesirky
repeated,
these are
international
civil
servants.
Europeans
only?
Many questions
were raised
about
Charpentier's
closeness with
the Khartoum
regime of Omar
al Bashir,
indicted for
genocide by
the
International
Criminal
Court. This is
the best the
UN can find?
Since
Ian
Martin erred
by writing in
his report,
leaked to and
published by
Inner City
Press, that
NATO would
have a
continuing
role in Libya,
it appears
that Ban
looked for a
non-NATO
member -- but
only as far as
Finland.
(Ex)
"Mediator"
Khatib, Ban
& Martin
on Aug 26, Strohmeyer
not shown
Earlier
on Monday,
French foreign
minister Alain
Juppe took
five questions
at the Council
on Foreign
Relations,
mostly about
Palestine.
Inner City
Press was
there, but not
called on by
fawning
moderator
James P. Rubin
to ask about
Libya. In his
opening
remarks, Juppe
said that NATO
will keep
bombing until
all Qaddafi
supporters
give us. He
called South
Africa "the
most
reluctant" of
the IBSA
countries, but
said that on
March 19 at
the UN South
Africa "got
convinced."
And so it
goes.
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