Brahimi
Has
1 Deputy, UN
No Answer on
Nobel Report,
Ban Out to
Aug 24?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 21 --
After rounds
of interviews
from his Paris
apartment
and uncorrected
false reports
Lakhdar
Brahimi is a
Nobel
Peace laureate,
at the UN in
New York on
Tuesday Inner
City Press
asked UN
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
two of the
three Brahimi
questions
it had
prepared.
Nesirky
began
by announcing
that Nasser
al-Kidwa will
be deputy to
Brahimi on
Syria, as he
was to Kofi
Annan. Inner
City Press
asked if that
meant
that Annan's
other deputy
Jean-Marie
Guehenno, who
quit to return
to
the French
government,
will not be
replaced.
"I've
announced what
I have to
announce,"
Nesirky said,
turning
immediately to
another
questioner.
Video here,
from Minute
7:44.
When
Nesirky
returned for
what Inner
City Press had
said would be
its
second Brahimi
question, the
answer was
even more
curt.
Inner City
Press asked
about continued
media reports
that Brahimi
is a "Nobel
Peace laureate,"
noting as the
Nobel
Foundation did
in its
response to
Inner City
Press that the
UN once
received this
prize: is
the claim
based the
award to the
UN as a whole?
(The Nobel
Foundation
told Inner
City Press
that this
should not be
done, click
here for that.)
Nesirky
replied,
"with the
greatest of
respect, I'm
not
responsible
for
the content of
media reports
about the
Joint Special
Representative."
Then
he even faster
than the first
time switched
to another
questioner. Video
here, from
Minute 9:33.
We'll have
more on this.
To
other
questioners,
Nesirky said
that Brahimi
will be based
in New
York, and will
come to the UN
in New York
late this week
for
consultations.
Inner
City Press
asked the
Permanent
Representative
of a
non-Permanent
member of the
Security
Council, who
had heard
nothing about
it.
But
apparently
neither had
Ban Ki-moon: as of Tuesday afternoon, Ban
Ki-moon's
"Daily
Schedule" says
"The
Secretary-General
will be away
from
Headquarters
from 21-24
August 2012."
It was
said Ban got
back from his
Timor and
South Korea
trip on August
17.
It would be
nice to ask,
but questions
are limited,
as noted
above.
Another
question:
who is
Brahimi's
spokesperson?
And if as it
appears he
doesn't have
(a good) one,
when will it
start: August
31?
How
many
apologies can
Brahimi
request,
and prizes be
reported to
have, by
then? Watch
this site.
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