UNITED
NATIONS, June
20 -- The UN
Security
Council was
briefed
Thursday
about Sudan
and South
Sudan, by both
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous
and his UN
Humanitarian
counter-part
Valerie Amos.
Despite
a
UN
peacekeepers
have recently
been killed in
Kadugli,
pretty
clearly by
shelling by
the SPLM-North
rebels,
Ladsous went
he emerged
with a big
entourage did
not speak at
the stakeout.
His
predecessors
Alain Le Roy
and Jean Marie
Guehenno
always spoke
after such a
death.
But Ladsous
has contempt
for the Press.
Amos,
by contrast,
took at least
four questions
on Sudan.
Inner City
Press
asked about
the
SPLM-North's
insistence on
cross border
aid from
South Sudan:
was that
humanitarian
or political,
as some say it
is in
Syria? Video
here from
Minute 6.
Amos
said the
parties don't
trust each
other, that
they may meet
in Addis
Ababa by the
end of the
month to talk
at least about
a vaccination
program.
Inner
City Press
asked about a
recommendation
in Amnesty
International's
new report on
Blue Nile
state, that
aid NGOs and
UN agencies
like
Amos' document
diversions of
aid by
SPLM-North and
report to the
Secretary
General. Video
here from
Minute 3:58.
Amos
said she'd
have to know
more about the
recommendation,
where the aid
that's be
referred to
is. There's
slated for the
UN at 10:15 am
on
Friday a press
conference
sponsored by
Norway, that
it seems like
address this
report. Sudan
wasn't aware
of the press
conference and
didn't think
it could get
into it.
Footnote:
Meanwhile,
the UN's
Censorship
Alliance has
scheduled a
private
session, only
for its
members, with
incoming PGA
John Ashe for
the same time.
The
UN gives UNCA
a big space
and even a
locked pantry
to store their
wine glass --
UNCA president
Pamela Falk's
wine cellar
it's been
dubbed -- and
in turn has
briefing about
topics like
Sudan
undermined
by private
insider
schoozefests.
Meanwhile the
UN has tried
to take
down even the sign of the
alternative Free UN Coalition for Access.
Have they
stopped a
campaign that
even many in
the UN have
called absurd
and
inappropriate?
Who knows.
Welcome to the
UN and its
Censorship
Alliance.
Watch this
site.
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