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In
Mali, Another
Chadian
Killed, ICP
Asks Ladsous
of 2-Tier
Peacekeeping,
He Walks
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 3 --
As Inner City
Press has
reported on UN
Peacekeeping's
unseemly
two-tier
structure,
under which in
Mali African
Ambassadors
complain their
troops are
left in
danger, not
allowed to use
the equipment
of NATO
members in the
UN mission,
DPKO chief
Herve Ladsous
has refused to
answer, and
Ban Ki-moon's
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric has
enabled and
assisted
Ladsous.
On
September 23
when Ladsous
held a “press
availability”
with Mali's
foreign
minister,
Inner City
Press asked
the former
about Al Qaeda
(he answered)
and Ladsous
about Chadian
peacekeepers
denied access
to
NATO-members'
in MINUSMA's
equipment.
After Mali's
foreign
minister
answered --
Ladsous
whispered to
him,
apparently not
to -- Ladsous
said, Mister
you should
know I never
answer you
questions. YouTube of UNTV Video, here.
Ladsous'
spokesman had
told UN TV's
boom operator
to stay away
from Inner
City Press -
despite the
right of Mali
and its
foreign
minister to
not be drawn
into
censorship by
the UN of
Ladsous and,
ultimately,
Ban Ki-moon.
On October 3,
Ban Ki-moon
issued a
canned
statement
about another
Chadian
peacekeeper in
Mali killed -
precisely the
issue on which
his Ladsous
has refused to
answer
questions. So
on October 4,
Inner City
Press asked
Ban's deputy
spokesman
Farhan Haq, UN transcript
here:
Inner City
Press: on the
death of the
peacekeepers
in Mali, I
know, back in
July, I'd
asked you
about this…
what I'd heard
from African
PRs [Permanent
Representatives]
from
troop-contributing
countries that
they're not
allowed to…
they don't
have access to
the same
equipment and
information as
the NATO
members that
are in
MINUSMA.
Has that issue
of… you said
that the
protocol was
being
reviewed.
Has that issue
been solved
yet, or where
does it stand
in terms of a
review so that
the same
intelligence
and equipment
that's
available to
the Dutch
peacekeepers
is available
to the Chadian
peacekeepers?
Deputy
Spokesman:
I mean, the
thing I'd…
what I'd told
you a few
months ago,
that still
applies, that
there was a
review to make
sure that we
could have a
better way of
handling the
situation of
contingent-owned
equipment.
So I don't
have any
further
details on
that to share
since then,
but that has
happened.
Inner City
Press:
Okay.
Because I'm
just wondering
as it relates
to this
attack…
Deputy
Spokesman:
Sure.
Sure? Inner
City Press ran
to the
stakeout and
asked Ladsous,
but he refused
to answer. Vine here.
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