At
UN
on Syria, An
"Attempt to
Break the
BRICS," To
Leave
Russia &
China Solo
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 2, updated
-- With dueling
Syria
resolutions
and
philosophies
competing in
the Security
Council,
the Western
side has
invited India,
Brazil and
South Africa
to
consultations
on Friday
afternoon.
Chinese
Ambassador Li
Baodong told
Inner City
Press that his
county and
Russia would
not be
attending. We
had a meeting
yesterday
of the BRICS,
he said with
the smile.
Russia's
Deputy
Permanent
Representative
Pankin added:
the BRICS, you
build with
them.
Later
Russian
Permanent
Representative
Vitaly
Churkin, when
Inner City
Press asked
him if the
BRICs would be
broken, said
with bravado,
"Never!"
Churkin &
Li Baodong,
between IBSA
& the
BRICS
Friday
afternoon's
session
will follow a
Thursday
afternoon
meeting at the
UK Mission at
which
all parts of
the European
and US draft
were discussed
except the
sanctions
provisions.
Some have
dubbed these
faux
negotiations;
others see an
attempt to
peal off the
so-called
IBSA.
Will
the BRICS
hold? Watch
this site.
* * *
At
UN
on Syria,
China Says
BRICS United,
Points to
Bahrain, India
on
Tripoli
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 1 --
With two
different
Syria draft
resolutions
pending in the
UN Security
Council,
the "UK is
trying to
appease
some members
into their
draft," South
Africa's
Permanent
Representative
Baso Sangqu
told Inner
City Press on
Thursday,
adding,
"I don't know
if it will
work."
Russian
Permanent
Representative
Vitaly Churkin
told Inner
City Press on
September 1
that the two
drafts
represent "two
different
philosophies,"
particularly
with regard to
imposing
sanctions.
For now not
only Russia
and China, but
also the so
called IBSA of
India, Brazil
and South
Africa, are
dubious about
sanctions.
Together
the five are
known as
BRICSA or
BRICS.
Also
on September
1, China's
Permanent
Representative
Li Baodong
told Inner
City Press
that "on
Syria, the
BRICS have
their own
common
position. This
is the new
development,
the new
phenonment
after Libya.
That really
helped the
BRICS to
strengthen
their
position. We
believe it is
very
important to
have a common
position." He
added, "Now
there's a
problem in
Bahrain."
Indian
Permanent
Representative
Hardeep Singh
Puri said that
"the Libyan
experience has
made people
extra
cautious...
You see what's
happening
in Tripoli --
the guys who
were in the
lead looked
like
nationalities
other than
Libyan. That's
the discussion
that's going
to take place.
People are
going to
agonize about
it then
decide."
The
UK called for
another
meeting
Tuesday at 2
at its Mission
on the
modified draft
it
has sponsored
with the
Council's
three other
European
members and
the
US.
Afterward a
representative
of one of the
BRICS
laughingly
told
Inner City
Press that the
UK had
purposely
limited the
discussion to
the
"non-sanctions"
portions of
their draft.
That's putting
off the
"agonizing"
referred to by
Hardeep Singh
Puri for
another day.
Speaking
of agony,
Li Baodong's
reference to
Bahrain
included the
killing of a
14 year
old boy Ali
Jawad Ahmad by
the
government.
Inner
City Press on
September 1
asked
Ban's new
Deputy
Spokesman
Eduardo del
Buey if Ban
had seen the
YouTube video
entitled "Ban
Ki-moon, Do
you see?" (click
here to view
the video,
being warned
that is
graphic,
autopsy, photo
here).
The Deputy
Spokesman
repeated
previous
urgings to
act in
accordance
with relevant
law and said
that since Ban
is
traveling, he
could not
confirm or
deny that Ban
has watched
the
video.
As
Inner City
Press
exclusively
reported, Ban
had told
Bahrain he
would send as
his envoy
UN political
official Oscar
Fernandez
Taranco --
then when Ban
got an
angry call
from Saudi
Arabia,
Taranco's
mission was
scrapped. Ban
Ki-moon, do
you see?
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