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Syria
Just Footnote
For UNSC in
May, Could
Become
Headline, Wrap
Up
Lunch
UNITED
NATIONS, May 1
-- As UN
Security
Council
members came
Wednesday to
meet May's
Council
President,
from Togo,
Inner City
Press alone in
front of the
Council asked
them
exclusively
about Syria
being a
footnote in
the month's
program of
work.
UK
Ambassador
Mark Lyall
Grant said
while it's
just a
footnote,
Syria
comes up at
least three
other times in
the month: the
luncheon with
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon, the
closing
"wrap-up"
session, and
during the
Middle East
debate. But
only the last
of
these is
public, and
then, the
Observer State
of Palestine,
and
Syria,
complain that
the focus has
shifted.
Australia's
Permanent
Representative
Gary Quinlan
said Syria
might be a
footnote
"on a piece of
paper" --
meaning the
program of
work -- is
was clearly
more than
that, for the
Council.
Pakistan's
Permanent
Representative
Khan quipped
that the
footnote could
sometimes be
the headline.
Rwanda's
Permanent
Representative
Eugene Richard
Gasana ended
his Council
presidency at
the April 30
wrap up
session by
wondering
aloud why the
Council meets
every two
weeks about
Sudan and
South Sudan,
but Syria
is just a
footnote.
Inner
City Press
asked US
Ambassador
Susan Rice not
about Syria,
but about
Sudan:
click here for
that.
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