As
ICP Asks Egypt of Sanctions, Haftar
in Libya
& S Sudan Arms, Cogent
Answers, No Akhbar al Yom
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
August 2 – When Egypt's
Ambassador Amr Abdellatif
Aboulatta, President of the UN
Security Council for August,
held a press conference on
August 2, Inner City Press
asked him about Egypt's draft
resolution to provide more
oversight of UN sanctions
teams, about South Sudan and
Libya. On sanctions he cited
countries like the Democratic
Republic of the Congo (he
could have said Eritrea); on
South Sudan, he noted that
there is no arms embargo to
violate. UN experts asserted
Egyptian military sales to
South Sudan, as Inner City
Press first reported. On
Libya, he praised Haftar's
presence at President Macron's
meeting and said that new UN
envoy Salame, with whom it
met, will soon visit Tripoli,
Cairo and Italy (which was
left out of Macron's and
Salame's show). We note that
Egypt state media Akhbar al
Yom, to whose emeritus
correspondent Saana Youssef
the UN is trying to give Inner
City Press' long time office
and leave it restricted from
covering the General Assembly
without a minder, wasn't even
present. We'll have more on
this. The day before on August
1 when new Russian Ambassador
to the UN Vassily Nebenzia
emerged from Egypt's Security
Council Program of Work
meeting, Inner City Press
asked him about the incoming
President of the Council's
proposals on sanctions, and he
answered. Inner City Press:
Egypt had a proposal about
sanctions to have a working
group to look at the impact of
sanctions. What does Russia
think of the proposal?
Amb Nebenzia:
We are discussing the
resolution on that which is
still in the Council. It has
not been agreed upon yet. We
have ideas about sanctions.
You know that we are victims
of illegitimate sanctions. Of
course, any sanctions that the
Security Council adopts – this
is the limit of it. The
Security Council is the only
legitimate international body
at all to come up with
sanctions. We do not want to
see extra sanctions on top of
those adopted by the Security
Council.
Inner City Press streamed
Periscope of the interchange,
and the Russian Mission
included it in its transcript,
unlike most recently the UK
which censored Inner City
Press' questions - and
Ambassador Rycroft's answer --
on Cyprus, here.
We'll have more on this.
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