As
Amos
Blocked, UNSC
"Agrees to
Work on
Statement,"
Sangqu Tells
ICP, Churkin
"Hopes" for
One
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 29, updated
-- After UN
humanitarian
chief Valerie
Amos
issued a
statement she
has been
blocked from
entering
Syria, the
topic was
immediately
raising in a
closed door UN
Security
Council
meeting
Wednesday
morning. South
African
Permanent
Representative
Baso Sangqu
told Inner
City Press,
"we have
agreed to work
on a
statement"
urging that
the Assad
governent let
Amos in.
Meanwhile
pro-Assad
sources
complained to
Inner City
Press that
Amos was not
blocked, but
only asked for
details about
her visit. "We
are not a
banana
republic" was
a phrase used
by sources
described as
diplomatic.
The
chess
game take
place hours
before
incoming joint
UN - Arab
League
envoy Kofi
Annan is set
to meet his
successor as
UN Secretary
General, Ban
Ki-moon, and
then the press
on Wednesday
evening at the
UN. Watch this
site.
Update:
at 11:45 am,
Inner City
Press asked
Vitaly Churkin
of Russia,
will there be
an Amos
statement. "I
hope there
will be" one,
Churkin told
Inner City
Press.
Update
of 1:20 pm --
After various
Permanent
Representatives
left the
Security
Council, even
a proponent of
a statement
expressing
"disappointment"
Amos has not
entered Syria
said it is
unlikely in
this session,
"maybe" this
afternoon when
Sudan is on
the agenda.
Watch this
site.
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