UNITED
NATIONS, April
25 -- Another
Francophone
African
country is in
chaos,
and its name
is
Guinea-Conakry.
After protests
killed one and
injured
ten, the head
of the UN
Department of
Political
Affairs
Jeffrey
Feltman
briefed the
Security
Council on
Thursday
afternoon.
Afterward
Council
members told
Inner City
Press about
the briefing,
with views
ranging -- in
France -- from
“c'est
dommage”
(it's a shame)
to “ca
ira”
(it will
work).
Then
another French
phrase: ville
morte.
Tomorrow there
is a “dead
city” protest.
What
about the
elections set
for June?
Previously,
Feltman's
predecessor
B. Lynn Pascoe
listed
Guinea-Conakry
as one of the
UN's mediation
successes.
Now what?
Inner
City Press
asked, Who had
the pen on
Guinea?” This
means, which
Security
Council member
is in charge
of drafting
Council
products?
France drafted
the Mali
resolution,
and a few
Central
African
Republic press
statements.
The US
drafted, then
changed, the
Western
Sahara
resolution.
But
who's got the
pen on Guinea?
It seems, as
one wag said,
that France's
pen has gone
dry.
Meanwhile
up
in the General
Assembly, the
Democratic
Republic of
Congo took the
floor to say
its problems
come from
“certain
neighboring
countries,”
and that the
UN's new intervention
brigade will
“eradicate
negative
forces.” Click
here for that.
Then
Sudan's
Permanent
Representative
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman trashed
a Temple
University
professor who
has spoken
about Darfur,
Molefi
Kete Asante.
It wasn't
clear who had
set up the
"expert" panels
in Vuk
Jeremic's GA
debate, but
there was
talk of a
declaration,
being
coordinated by
South Sudan,
and South
Africa. Watch
this site.
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