Inner
City Press
spoke with
Ja'afari
exclusively on
Friday morning
and got his
read-out
of his meeting
with Ladsous.
But
before
publishing
this story,
Inner
City Press
asked
Ladsous's
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations
twice for its
side, and
asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesman
Eduardo Del
Buey, who
refused to
answer. Video
here.
While
Ladsous is
almost
pathologically
adverse to
answering
Press
questions
-- video
here --
the
defensiveness
of the UN
Secretariat,
according
to Ja'afari,
springs from
the fact that
in the
kidnappings,
"some
people are
involved in
the
Secretariat...
it's a big
scandal."
Ja'afari
told
Inner City
Press that
when he met
with Ladsous
on May 16,
Ladsous "tried
not to give
the impression
he is aware of
what I
said, but he
is."
What
Ja'afari said,
in the General
Assembly on
May 15, was
that e-mail
shows that the
UN was aware
of the
involvement of
Doha, Qatar in
the
kidnappings,
including a
planning role
of the Syrian
opposition
"ambassador"
to whom Qatar
has given
Syria's
embassy.
Ja'afari
told
Inner City
Press that
this went up
to the "high
level of
DPKO." Inner
City Press
asked Ban's
spokesman Del
Buey about
this at the
May 16 noon
briefing, but
has yet to get
an answer.
Inner
City Press
asked DPKO in
writing one
last time,
after Del
Buey
refused on
camera, here,
to provide its
own read out
of Ladsous'
meeting with
Ja'afari. DPKO
replied,
"Regarding the
read-out of
USG Ladsous’
meeting with
Syria’s
Permanent
Representative,
DPKO
does not
provide read
outs of the
USGs
meetings."
Ja'afari
told
Inner City
Press that at
his May 16
meeting with
Ladsous, "I
insisted on
him to
investigate, I
told him, the
ball is in
your
court, go and
investigate,
otherwise it
will keep on
going on."
But
if the past is
any guide,
Ladsous' DPKO
does NOT
investigate.
It never
investigated
its own role
in the killing
in Cote
d'Ivoire of
internally
displaced
people
perceived as
Gbagbo
supporters in
the
Nahibly camp.
It
has yet to
investigate
its role in
the killings,
including of a
peacekeeper,
in Abyei. DPKO
was asking
this again on
Friday, and
has yet to
provide
answers,
insteading
wishing a good
weekend. Watch
this site.
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