At
UN
on Yemen, No
Comment on
Killing
Awlaki,
Grumbles About
Process
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 11 --
As the UN
Security
Council met
Tuesday about
Yemen, some
Council
members
grumbled about
the process by
which the
United Kingdom
and others
were preparing
a draft
resolution on
the
subject.
"I
haven't
seen a draft,"
India's
Permanent
Representative
Hardeep Singh
Puri told the
Press, but now
I'm being
asked about
it. "It's a
sad reflection
on how some
[Council]
members
function - on
the
record," he
said.
Russia's
Permanent
Representative
Vitaly Churkin
told the Press
that he had
suggested a
Presidential
Statement, as
a follow up by
the prior
Press
Statement,
and that he
had support
among some
Council
members for
this.
Later
on Tuesday, a
Russian
diplomat told
Inner City
Press it will
of
course depend
on what's in
the UK-drafted
resolution.
Even
another
European
Council member
was unclear
who was
co-sponsoring
the draft
resolution on
Yemen. The
"four horsemen
of the EU"
approach
attempted on
Syria does not
seem to hold
here, one wag
noted. The UK
draft is
expected to be
circulated
later in the
week.
Ban Ki-moon
& Yemen's
Saleh,
accountability
not shown
UN
envoy Jamal
Benomar
emerged and
took questions
at the
stakeout, on
UN Television.
Inner City
Press asked
him about
accountability
for Saleh,
since an
earlier Gulf
Cooperation
Council
proposal
involved
immunity from
prosecution.
Benomar
to his
credit
referred to
actions for
accountability
at the Human
Right
Council in
Geneva. But
when Inner
City Press
asked about
the impact
of the
Americans
killing Anwar
al-Awlaki in
Yemen -- a
topic on which
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
said Ban has
no comment at
all -- Benomar
answered
generally
about the
Yemeni
political
process.
Afterward
India's
Hardeep Singh
Puri said that
among Yemen's
problems is
the number of
provinces now
in the control
of affiliates
of Al Qaeda,
and the
potential to
"link up" with
the Horn of
Africa. We'll
have
more on this.
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