On
Somalia, S.
Africa &
Togo Question
Ban Not Seeing
Illegal
Dumping &
Fishing
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 21 --
After the UN
Security
Council
adopted a
resolution on
Somalia
Wednesday
morning, South
Africa took
the floor
to question
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
report having
in essence
denied the
existence of
toxic dumping
and illegal
fishing.
Just
before the
speech, it was
complained to
Inner City
Press, "It's
only Ban
Ki-moon who
doesn't see
it."
Another
diplomat
pointed out
that South
Korean ships
are among
those accused
of illegal
fishing off
Somalia.
South
Africa's
speech
concluded that
the issues
must be
investigated
"how
ever
inconvenient."
Togo spoke
next and
echoed this
call.
In
the Security
Council was
Ban's head of
UN
Peacekeeping
Herve Ladsous,
fresh off the
failure of the
MONUSCO
mission to do
anything as
the
M23 mutineers
took over Goma
and now Sake
in the
Democratic
Republic
of the Congo.
In Goma, the
UN immediately
"found" rape
and
child soldier
recruitment by
M23, even as
peacekeepers
on the ground
deny it. Ban's
and Ladsous'
UN, it seems,
sees and
reports what's
convenient.
Watch this
site.
Footnote:
another
Somalia issue
on which the
African
Security
Council
members
were ignored
was
incorporating
and paying for
a naval
component in
the AMISOM
mission in
Somalia. This
is becoming a
trend.
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