Ladsous
Snubbed
Peacekeeping
Conference in
Uruguay,
Losing $8000
& Perhaps
Job
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS, May 7
-- Embattled
UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous,
beyond being named
in a UN
Dispute
Tribunal
ruling as
having urged
the
resignation of
the
whistleblower
who revealed
French Army
rapes in the
Central
African
Republic
(Ladsous denied
this,
without taking
questions),
has run afoul
of a number of
Troop
Contributing
Countries, not
only Rwanda.
Diplomats from
a number of
countries in
the Americas
have
exclusively
complained to
Inner City
Press that
Ladsous, after
the UN bought
him an $8000
plane ticket
to attend a
“Hemispheric”
meeting on
peacekeeping
this week in
Uruguay,
decided at the
last minute
not to go,
sending a
subordinate
with, as one
diplomat put
it, “no
information at
all.”
Ladsous had
already shown
a willingness
to snub African
Troop
Contribution
Countries like
Rwanda.
But his error
here, as more
than one
country's
diplomat put
it, is that
the
Hemispheric UN
Peacekeeping
event in
Uruguay which
he snubbed was
a follow-up to
the event US
Vice President
Joe Biden
chaired on the
sidelines of
the UN General
Assembly last
September.
Openly
speaking badly
of Rwanda is
one thing;
refusing Press
questions
about rapes in
the DR Congo,
Darfur and now
Central
African
Republic is
another. But
snubbing the
United States,
which hold
much sway at
the UN (click
here for
Inner City
Press' exclusive
yesterday
about Yemen)
is “not
smart,” as one
diplomat put
it, asking,
“When is he
going to quit,
as he tried to
make the CAR
rape
whistleblower
quit?”
Since the UN
Peacekeeping
top post is
essentially
owned by
France since
the election
of Kofi Annan
as Secretary
General --
Ladsous was
twice rejected
as “the
Frenchman” to
hold it, then
got in after
the selected
one, Jerome
Bonnafont,
bragged too
early while in
India, and
Ladsous
slipped in --
the better
question is,
why doesn't
France ease
him out and at
least send
someone
better?
Perhaps this
French
government's
discomfort --
and dodging of
questions
about -- these
French alleged
child rapes in
CAR, Ladsous
being listed
in the UNDT
ruling and
not answering
if the alleged
rapists remain
in the French
force his
MINUSCA
mission
supports, will
force France's
hand.
Simple
questions have
not been
answered.
Watch this
site.
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