ICP
Asked UNSG Spokesman
of OSCE Deals
in Brindisi, Amid Mali Death,
UNanswered
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
February 22 – When the UN
Security Council met on
February 21 on “Conflicts in
Europe,” it began with a
minute of silence for Vitaly
Churkin, Russia's Ambassador
who'd died the day before.
Inner City Press obituary here.
Then came a briefing by OSCE
Secretary-General Lamberto
Zannier and a series of
speeches.
Inner City Press asked
Zannier, at his press
conference, to specify the
dangers he sees in the
recognition of travel
documents from Donetsk and
Lugansk. He said there might
be some humanitarian benefit,
but it reminded him of
Georgia, Abkhazia and South
Ossetia.
Zannier said OSCE has had
eight drones shot down, at a
cost of $1 million each, and
is now using drones with a
medium range of 50 to 60
kilometers as well as cameras.
Inner City Press asked, since
he said OSCE will do
procurement through the UN
Peacekeeping base in Brindisi,
if OSCE can share some
technology with UN
Peacekeeping contingents like
Chad's, which suffers deaths
in Mali under Herve Ladsous
due to insufficient equipment.
On the
morning of February 22, Inner
City Press posed a simple
question in writing to UN
holdover spokesman Stephane
Dujarric, who had canceled the
day's noon briefing: "Please
describe any cooperation
between the UN / DFS /
Brindisi and the OSCE, as
spoken about yesterday by the
OSCE's Lamberto Zannier."
More than two
hours later, having no
response at all, Inner City
Press posed a question to new
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres, adding audibly that
his spokesman Dujarric is not
answering basic Press
questions. Video
here. Two more hours
later, still no answer. Seems
Dujarric should go the way of
Ladsous. Watch this site.
In the
Council Chamber on February
21, US Ambassador Nikki Haley
spoke not only on Ukraine but
also Moldova, Nagorno-Karabakh
and Cyprus. (At noon Inner
City Press asking about Cyprus
giving citizenship to a member
of the UNFICYP mission there;
there was no answer). As Haley
began to speak, UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres had
to leave, to sign the
condolence book for Churkin.
There are many changes and reforms
needed at the UN. Watch
this site.
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