UNITED
NATIONS, May
16 -- How lame
has UN
Peacekeeping
become?
Questions are
publicly
asked, about
the more and
more evident
lack of
credibility
of
Peacekeeping
boss Herve
Ladsous and
are and not
answered. Then
DPKO tries to
spoon-feed
information to
scribes like
Reuters who
don't ask any
questions.
At
the UN
noon briefing
on May 16,
only Inner
City Press
asked about
the
agency, led by
Ladsous, the
fourth
Frenchman in a
row to hold
the
position:
Inner
City Press: on
this issue
that arose
yesterday in
the debate on
the
Syria
resolution in
the General
Assembly,
where
Ambassador
Ja’afari
of Syria held
up an e-mail
which he says
is from a
staff person
in
Damascus, to
high up in
DPKO
[Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations],
is what he
said, stating
that the
Syrian
opposition
ambassador 'in
Doha was
involved in
some way in
the kidnapping
of UN
peacekeepers.'
Is there any
UN response?
It seems like
it is a very
serious
charge. I
understand you
can’t reopen
the
negotiation,
but do you
deny
that the UN is
aware that the
Syrian
ambassador in
Doha was part
of
the
kidnapping?
Deputy
Spokesperson:
Matthew, we
don’t comment
on leaked
documents.
Inner
City Press:
Forget that he
waved the
e-mail. I am
asking you, is
it
the UN’s
understanding
that the
Syrian
opposition
that’s named
in
the resolution
adopted
yesterday was
involved in
the kidnapping
of UN
peacekeepers?
Deputy
Spokesperson:
Matthew, we
are not going
to comment on
the modalities
of the
negotiations
that took
place for
obvious
reasons.
Then
after yet more
peacekeepers
were grabbed,
rather than
even put out
an
e-mail
announcement,
Ladsous
summoned a
group of
friendly
journalists,
who typed up
what he said
without any
context at
all.
Reuters'
Michelle
Nichols, for
example, typed
up quotes from
Ladsous
without
any mention of
what happened
in the GA Hall
the day
before, and
said
Fiji would
replace the
fleeing
peacekeepers,
according
to unnamed
diplomats.
With
all due
respect to
Fiji, it was
barred by Kofi
Annan from
contributing
troops due to
its
coup d'etat.
The reason it
would step in
now would be
to put that
behind. To not
include that
in a story is
just lazy,
ignorant, or
worse.
But
this is what
Ladsous, and
now apparently
the UN he is
corrupting, is
looking for.
It so
ill-serves
even the troop
contributing
countries
that by them
Ladsous is
called a
loser. And
what are the
scribes who
serve him?
Watch this
site.
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