At
UN,
Syria Blue
Draft Put
Online by ICP,
"Without
Prejudging
Outcome" or
Consulting
Arab League
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 3 --
Late on
February 2,
three hours
after the UN
Security
Council ended
its
consultations
on Syria
and spoke of a
blue
or "final"
draft
resolution to
be sent to
capitals,
Inner
City Press
obtained the
draft and it now
putting it
online, here.
As
a non-Western
diplomat told
Inner City
Press just
after the
consultations
broke up,
concessions
were made
such that now
while the
Council "calls
for
an inclusive
Syrian-led
political
process," it
is explicitly
"without
prejudging the
outcome," in
Operative
Paragraph 6.
The
non-Western
Council
diplomat said
that means
that Bashar al
Assad does not
have
to delegate
power to his
deputy, even
temporarily.
French
Ambassador Gerard Araud
on Thursday,
even after
agreeing to
omit the
original
paragraphs 7a,
b and c,
insisted
to Inner City
Press that
it still
called for the
"transfer" of
power.
In
the Council's
closed door
consultations
on Thursday,
much time was
spent
insisting
on the
important of
common
interpretations,
or at least
common public
statements and
"no statements
to the press."
Also
dropped,
from the
"blue" or
final
Operative
Paragraph 16,
is that the
Council if it
considers
further
measures would
do so in
consultations
with the
League of Arab
States.
Inner
City Press was
chided for
having
obtained and exclusively
published the
Version 2
draft of
January 30,
with track
changes,
and the Version
3 draft on the
morning of
February 2.
(c)
UN photo
Stakeout
on Syria
resolution,
"without
prejudging the
outcome" not
shown
But
the "blue"
draft should
be seen, by
the public and
especially the
impacted
public, as
quickly as
possible. And
so Inner City
Press is
putting it
online, as
early on
February 3 as
possible, New
York time.
Watch this
site.
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