On
Gaza Egypt
First Asked
for Meeting,
"Since
Palestine
Didn't,"
Letters Here
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 14,
updated --
Egypt made the
first request
for a Security
Council
meeting on
Gaza, "because
Palestine's
letter did
not." Inner
City Press has
obtained both
letters, and
is putting
them online
here: Palestine's
letter,
than Egypt's
letter.
Egypt's
Permanent
Representative
wrote that on
instructions
from his
government, he
has requested
an urgent
meeting of the
Security
Council.
Palestine's
initial letter
did not make
that request,
and sources
have
exclusively
described in
detail to
Inner City
Press a
dust-up
between
Palestine and
Egypt.
Some call it a
struggle for
power, or
representation.
Later,
Palestine made
a request, and
Morocco did. A
9 pm closed
meeting, like
one held on
the Lord's
Resistance
Army, was
agreed to as a
compromise.
A
transcript of
Palestine's
Riyad
Mansour's
afternoon
stakeout is here,
first lines
were:
Good
afternoon,
I just had a
brief meeting
a few minutes
ago with the
President of
Security
Council. I
gave him a
letter about
this latest
aggression by
Israel against
our people in
the Gaza
strip. [more]
More
to
follow - watch
this site. Here is
Palestine's
draft
resolution to
become a
non-member
State of the
UN, here.
Update
of
6:54 pm:
Mansour came
out and said
that "Morocco"
has also
requested a
meeting -- he
did not
mention
Egypt...
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