On
Gaza, Arab
Ambassadors
Convey
Dissatisfaction
to SC Prez, No
Sunday Plans
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 17 --
At India's
Mission to the
UN at 6 pm on
Saturday, Arab
Ambassadors
were to meet
about Gaza
with Security
Council
president
Hardeep Singh
Puri. Inner
City Press
went to stake
it out.
After
6:45 pm,
Morocco's
Permanent
Representative
Loulichki
emerged. Inner
City Press
asked him
about the next
step on Gaza,
if a Sunday
meeting
of the
Security
Council should
be expected.
"Not
yet,"
Ambassador
Loulickhi told
Inner City
Press. "We are
considering
all options."
Moments
later,
Palestine's
Permanent
Observer Riyad
Mansour
emerged with
the
Indian Mission
with two
colleagues.
Inner City
Press asked
him the
same question.
He
replied that
Arab League
foreign
minister had
expressed
their
dissatisfaction
with the
Security
Council's
inaction, "and
we
conveyed that
to the
President."
Like
Loulichki, he
said that
all options
are being
considered,
but not to
expect a
Security
Council
meeting on
Sunday.
Across
Second Avenue
from the
Indian mission
there were
protest in
front of
the office
building
housing
Israel's
Mission to the
UN. There were
television
news trucks
covering the
protest, but
not the Arab
Ambassadors'
meeting with
the Security
Council
president. And
so it
goes at the
UN. Watch this
site.
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