UNITED
NATIONS, April
27 -- While
French Defense
Ministere
Jean-Yves Le
Drian
pressures Chad
to keep its
troops in Mali,
the head of UN
Peacekeeping
Herve Ladsous,
the fourth
Frenchman in a
row in the
post, on April
25 refused to
answer the
Press on who
would disarm
the
MNLA.
Ladsous
told
Inner City
Press, which
asked about
the MNLA,
"I don't
respond to
you,
Mister."
Video
here.
Meanwhile
Chad's
Permanent
Representative
to the UN,
Ahmad
Allam-mi, told
Inner
City Press
that Chad
does not want
to stay in
northern Mali
with the
MNLA. So
it becomes
crucial that
the question
be answered:
who will
disarm the
MNLA? How can
the UN refuse
to even take
this question?
A
related
question, that
arose at the
UN on April
26, is why
isn't
Ladsous
disciplined or
fired for
refusing to
answer Press
questions,
for example
for four
months on the
126 rapes in
Minova by the
Congolese
Army, his
partners? Click to see November 27, December
7,
and December
18.
The
answer is that
Ladsous was
put in by
France, a
Permanent Five
member
of the
Security
Council with
that power
over Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon.
In
fact, the only
reason France
“owns” UN
Peacekeeping
is a deal it
stuck to
remove its
veto block on
Kofi Annan
ascending from
Peacekeeping
chief to
Secretary
General. The
quid pro quo
was France
would get
Peacekeeping.
They
put in Bernard
Miyet, then
Jean-Marie
Guehenno
(after Ladsous
was
rejected by
Annan), then
Alain Le Roy.
They prepared
to put in
Jerome
Bonnafont in
2001, but he
bragged about
getting the
job (much
the way the Brazilian
General Carlos
Alberto dos
Santos Cruz
has
bragged of
being Congo
mission Force
Commander
before the UN
announced it.)
And
so Ladsous was
foisted on the
UN, a
candidate
previously
rejected. In
1994 records
show he
defended the
flight of genocidaires
into Eastern
Congo. Now
he represents
UN
Peacekeeping
there?
That,
it seems, is
why he began
refusing to
answer any
Press
questions. But
why does Ban
Ki-moon accept
it? Because
Ladsous was
put in by
France,
and France has
the veto. So
it is up to
France to do
something, not
only for the
UN's good, but
for its own.
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site.
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