By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 4 --
More than
twenty four
hours after
French Defense
Minister
Jean-Yves Le
Drian came
to the UN
on October 3
and met the
UN's Ban
Ki-moon
and former
French
diplomat Herve
Ladsous, the
UN had provided
no read-out.
Earlier
on October 3
Le Drian had
met with US
Secretary of
Defense Chuck
Hagel, and
Hagel said
they discussed
if France will
join the US in
airstrikes in
Syria. Did Le
Drian discuss
this with Ban
and Ladsous as
well?
Even
France 24
reported what
Hagel said.
To extrapolate
to the UN is
not a stretch
- except,
apparently,
for big wigs
or grands
fromages
in the UN
press corps.
At NPR,
Michele
Kelemen
interviewed Le
Drian who said
France is very
"transparent"
about its
positions on
Syria. So why
no read-out?
There
emerges a photo of Le Drian
and Ladsous,
marking some
agreement,
here.
Ostensibly it's
for the French
troops in
Sangaris to
cooperate with
Ladsous'
MINUSCA
mission in the
Central
African
Republic. But
with reports
of French troops
killing in
CAR, most
recently in Bambari,
would UN Peacekeeping
under former
French
diplomat Herve
Ladsous really
look into
this? He does
not answer
Press
questions.
As regards
Syria, Ladsous
most recently
ordered
peacekeepers
from Fiji and
the
Philippines to
surrender to
the Jabhat al
Nusra rebels,
or terrorists,
in the Golan
Heights.
When
Inner City
Press tried to
asked Ladsous
questions on
September 26,
Ladsous
refused to
answer. On
September 27,
as Inner City
Press
filmed from
the entirely
legal UN
General
Assembly
stakeout area,
Ladsous came
over and
blocked Inner
City Press'
camera and
demanded, what
do you want
with this?
UN
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric has
been asked
twice about
what Ladsous
did, for the Free UN Coalition for Access, but has
yet to
respond.
Dujarric
previously
told FUNCA
that then
French
Ambassador
Gerard Araud
should have
accorded a UN
correspondent
from Lebanon
(more) respect
rather
than telling
the
correspondents,
“You are not a
journalist,
you are an
agent.”
But Dujarric
declined to
instruct the
French mission
to this
effect. Of
Araud's
replacement
Francois
Delattre the
Press so far
knows little
but retains an
open mind.
We
repeat, now
also on behalf
of FUNCA:
For a
meeting like
Ban's with Le
Drian, there
should be a a
read-out.
Watch this
site.
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