OIC
& Saudis
Criticize Ban
on Rohingha,
Shift to
Syria,
ARU
UNaddressed
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, July
10 -- At the
UN at
Wednesday
there was
criticism of
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon for
not doing
enough on the
issue of
the Rohingyas
in Myanmar.
Saudi
Arabia's
Permanent
Representative
Abdallah Yahya
Al-Mouallemi
said
that upstairs,
with Ban and
his envoy
Vijay Nambiar,
the argument
was
made that
Myanmar's
President is
“not fully
informed” of
the
abuses against
Rohingya; he
added that
this is
“difficult to
understand.”
His
criticism, and
that of
Djibouti's
Roble Olhaye,
was well
placed.
Inner City
Press asked
Abdallah Yahya
Al-Mouallemi
about the
Organization
of the Islamic
Cooperation's
decision not
to postpone
the July 7-8
meeting of the
Arakan
Rohingya
Union, which many
Rohingyas
around the
world had
requested.
This question
was not
answered.
Rather,
Abdallah
Yahya
Al-Mouallemi
took the
opportunity of
his
counterpart
from Djibouti
mentioning an
upcoming
meeting with
the Security
Council to
call the
situation in
Syria worse
than that of
the
Rohingya.
Three
other
ambassadors,
of Turkey,
Brunei and
Egypt had been
promised in
the UN Media
Alert. As with
UN
envoy to West
Africa Said
Djinnit
earlier in the
day (@FUNCA_Questions
has asked DPA)
they did not
arrive to take
questions.
Abdallah
Yahya
Al-Mouallemi
brought up
Syria, but not
Egypt. And so
it goes at
the UN.
Footnote:
The
turn-out for
the press
conference,
called on
short notice,
was
small: a
Turkish
journalist,
who made a
point of
offering
thanks for
UNCA, another
asking
softball
questions, and
the UN scribes
to write
it all up (we
predict the
criticism of
Ban Ki-moon
won't make it
in).
Inner City
Press
counter-offered
thanks for the
Free
UN Coalition
for Access,
and @FUNCA_info
asked
by Twitter
where the
Ambassadors of
Turkey, Brunei
and Egypt --
which Egypt?
-- might have
been. And
we're still
waiting to
hear. Watch
this site.
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