By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 16 --
Not only in
Egypt but also
Mali, how are
coups and coup
leaders dealt
with in the
UN?
After Malian
coup leader
Amadou Sanogo
was rewarded
this week with
a promotion to
General, Inner
City Press on
August 15
asked UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesperson
Eduardo Del
Buey:
Inner
City
Press: Since
the election
that took
place, Captain
[Amadou Haya]
Sanogo, who
was the coup
leader, whose
coup
precipitated
all of the
recent action
there, has
been promoted
three steps up
in the army to
become a
general, and I
wondered,
given that
he’s widely
described as a
coup leader,
does the UN,
either Mr.
[Bert]
Koenders or
anybody, have
any comment on
the promotion
to this level
of the army of
the leader of
the coup?
Deputy
Spokesperson
Del Buey:
Well, we’ll
have to check.
I don’t have
anything on
it. We just
got the report
this morning,
so we’ll check
on that.
But 28
hours later,
there was no
comment at
all. So when
this month's
UN Security
Council
president
Maria Cristina
Perceval of
Argentina came
out Friday to
read a Council
press
statement
about the
election,
Inner City
Press asked
her about
Sanogo.
Speaking
in
her national
capacity, she
replied on
camera that
Argentina is
inquiring, not
to stigmatize,
if Sanogo now
respects human
rights and
international
humanitarian
law.
Well,
that's
something --
it's more than
Ban Ki-moon's
Secretariat or
envoy Koenders
said, or
colonizer of
Mali, France.
Click
here
for video of
Ambassador
Perceval;
here
for video of
Argentine
President
Fernandez
Kirchner,
speaking
August 6 about
the UNSC veto,
here.
Just
before
Perceval read
the Security
Council's
statement, the
Council's
Permanent
Members met
next door in
the
Trusteeship
Council
Chamber.
UK Deputy
Permanent
Representative
Parham chaired
the very
short meeting,
transferring
the presidency
to France.
US Deputy
Permanent
Representative
Rosemary
DiCarlo was
there, as was
Chinese Deputy
Permanent
Representative
Wang. Parham
said, the
program of
work looks
light. You
might say:
there are no
more trustees,
at least
legally.
After
Perceval's
stakeout, she
went to a
meeting of the
Council's
Sudan
sanctions
committee.
Inner City
Press noted
the report of
Sudan, paid by
Qatar,
transferring
weapons to
rebels in
Syria.
Perceval
indicated
she'd read it.
But why was
the Sudan
sanctions
committee
meeting not in
the day's UN
Journal? The Free UN Coalition for Access, @FUNCA_info,
has asked.
Watch this
site.
Update:
FUNCA has
learned that
the
information
about the
UNSC's Sudan
sanctions
meeting was
given to the
UN Journal
"too late."
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