As
Syria Vote Put
off to
Thursday
Morning,
Narrative of
Terror, P5 to
Meet
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
July 18 -- In
the wake of
the bombings
in Damascus,
the UN
Security
Council put
off its vote
on the
UK-tabled
Syria
resolution
for 19 hours,
to Thursday
morning. But
when French
Ambassador
Gerard
Araud was
asked if he
was
optimistic, he
said "no."
The
issue
as several
non-Western
Security
Council
members put it
to Inner
City Press is
that the
bomb-killing
of Syria's
Defense
Minister
changes
things. One
cynic asked,
"So this
bombing was
done by
defenseless
people?"
Li
Baodong
of China told
the Press the
bombing was
terrorist.
Another
Council source
opined to
Inner City
Press, until
now the Obama
administration
was just
trying to fend
off the
Republicans
until the
election in
November. Now
it might not
last until
then. Then the
Free
Syrian Army
won't owe anything
to the US,
only to Saudi
and Qatar.
Still
another,
referring to
Inner City
Press' story
about plans to
split
Syria into
three with
Alawites
taking the
coast and
Kurds another
zone, said
that scenario
is getting
closer.
As
the
Libya meeting
of the
Security
Council broke
up, July's
Council
president
Nestor Osorio
confirmed to
Inner City
Press that
there will
be a meeting
of the
Permanent Five
members on
Wednesday
afternoon,
while saying
that the non
Permanent or
Elected Ten
also have
their
role. Watch
this site.
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