On
"Condensed"
Syria Draft,
UN SC To Meet
Saturday,
Return to
Barracks In?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
April 13 --
When the UN
Security
Council
meeting on
Syria
finally broke
up on Friday
evening,
French
Ambassador
Gerard Araud
told the press
it was tough,
there was no
final
agreement
reached,
but there will
be a vote on
Saturday, set
for 11 am. UK
Ambassador
Mark Lyall
Grant said the
same: vote at
11 am.
Russia's
Vitaly
Churkin spoke
at more
length, saying
he was not
entirely
satisfied
with the
negotiations,
that others
had tried to
push their
"pet"
issues. He
said a new
draft would be
circulated,
let's see
what's in
it.
US
Ambassador
Susan Rice,
this month's
Council
president,
declined to
get into the
specifics of
the new draft.
Inner City
Press asked
her about
South
Sudan's
refusal to
leave Heglig.
She said,
"That is not
good.
They need to
go."
Western
diplomats,
on background,
told Inner
City Press
that the
result of the
afternoon's
negotiations
was to
"condense" the
draft. Sure,
"demand"
became "calls
upon" -- but
the
"essential,"
they said, is
still in.
Others
emphasized
that
if a draft is
approved on
Saturday, at
least twelves
advance
observers
could be in
Syria the same
day.
To
the side, a
non-Western
Council member
told Inner
City Press
that
"voluntarism"
is best. "Look
that the
United
States," the
Council member
said. "They
don't allow
Iranian
diplomats free
movement...
Assad
could pull his
troops back
into the
barrack --
then have them
come
out again."
And so it goes
at the UN --
watch this
site.
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