In
ECOSOC,
Palestine
& Self
Determination
Is Finessed by
Osorio, US
Agrees
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 16 --
Amid word of
US Secretary
of State John
Kerry
returning to
Palestine to
speak with
Mahmood Abbas,
at the UN on
Monday a six
month long
conflict
between the US
and Palestine
and its
supporters
over language
was resolved.
As
ECOSOC
President
Nestor Osorio
of Colombia
explained to
Inner City
Press, an
explicit
reference to
the right of
self
determination
was
removed from a
text but
remained
implicitly,
with a
citation to a
previous
documents
containing it.
Osorio also
said out loud
the magic
words, in
the nature of
an explanation
of what was
being adopted.
This is how
word problems
are solved at
the UN.
More
concretely on
the Israel -
Palestine
negotiation,
Inner City
Press
was briefed
Monday by a
well placed
source on what
Palestine
could
accept, in
terms of
security
arrangements:
no Israel, but
yes, maybe, to
a
third party
like NATO.
Meanwhile
in
the Security
Council on
Libya, NATO's
role was again
a subject of
dispute. Inner
City Press
asked UK
Ambassador
Mark Lyall
Grant if
disagreements
in the Council
about whether
the NATO
action on the
country was a
success or
failure
continued to
echo inside.
Lyall
Grant
indicated that
disagreements
continue.
This
became clear
minutes later,
when a
decidedly
non-Western
diplomat
approached
Inner City
Press and
said, about
Libya,
"France, the
UK and US (you
know the
acronym)
created the
militias, let
them deal
with the
problem."
The
diplomat
added, "they
caused the
problem with
two
resolutions,
now they issue
a Presidential
Statement
telling the
Libyan
authorities to
clean up the
mess." Yes,
disagreements
continue.
But we felt a
need to report
it -- a
dispute about
language,
between
the US,
Palestine and
its
supporters,
was resolved
Monday after
six
months. Watch
this site.
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