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UN
Feltman Speaks
on Syria in
McClatchy
Reports,
Called Only
Former US
Official
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 14 --
With a Syria
draft UN
Security
Council
Presidential
Statement
stalled in the
Council, meant
to support the
work of the
UN's third
envoy to the
country
Staffan de
Mistura,
quotes in
yesterday's
McClatchy
report(s)
about Syria by
current UN
Political
Affairs chief
Jeffrey
Feltman are
more than a
little
strange.
As published
on
MiamiHerald.com,
the story in
focusing on
2011 quotes
and identifies
Feltman:
“'You were
constantly
pivoting from
portfolio to
portfolio,
knowing there
were linkages
between them
all,' recalled
Jeffrey
Feltman, who
then oversaw
the State
Department’s
Middle East
policy as
assistant
secretary of
Near Eastern
Affairs. 'It
was really
hectic a lot
of the time.'”
Feltman is not
identified
there as a
current UN
official. Nor
in a longer
McClatchy
version:
“'It’s
probably
accurate to
say we
underestimated
how bad it
would be,'
Jeffrey
Feltman, who
was the
assistant
secretary of
state for Near
East Affairs
until July
2012, said of
the
administration’s
response to
the jihadist
threat in
Syria. 'The
concern was
there all
along.'”
When
Inner City
Press first
reported in
March 2012
that Feltman
was being
placed by the
US atop the UN
Department of
Political
Affairs, to
replace fellow
American B.
Lynn Pascoe,
Inner City
Press noted
that putting
“UN” policy in
the hands of
the person who
covered the
Middle East
for the State
Department
might be a
problem.
(There were
other
problems, like
here
and then censorship
here.)
But are these
problems being
covered up by
simply not
identifying
Feltman as UN
official? Or
was the lack
of
identification
a condition of
Feltman giving
quotes to
McClatchy?
Watch this
site.
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