On
Syria,
Brahimi to
Russia, UK's
Hague Meets
Saudi's Jarba,
Race for
Relevance
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 5 --
To work the
sidelines of
the G20
meeting in
Russia trying
desperately to
save the
long-promised
Geneva Two
talks
on Syria, UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon has
announced
envoy
Lakhdar
Brahimi is on
his way to St.
Petersburg.
Brahimi
when
last seen,
other than
through a
dubious
Twitter
account, was
saying more
clearly than
Ban had or has
that military
action on
Syria
must go
through the UN
Security
Council. (Click
here for
Inner City
Press story on
that.) Will
that be his
message to the
US and France
at the G20
meeting?
Saudi-sponsored
Syria
rebel boss
Jarba has been
calling for
air strikes,
disappointed
to even wait
for process in
the US
Congress,
where the
Senate Foreign
Relations
Committee
voted "Yes,"
10-7, on
September 4.
In
the UK, where
such action on
Syria was
roundly voted
down, Foreign
Secretary
William Hague
meets today
with Jarba.
Why not just
talk
with Saudi
Foreign
Minister Saud
al-Faisal?
After losing
in the
House of
Commons, the
David Cameron
- Nick Clegg
government is
in its
own Race for
Relevance.
Jarba
when last seen
in New York
was in a faux
"UN briefing"
publicized
only to those
who paid money,
held in a
third floor
room
the UN gives
to its UN
Correspondents
Association
(now under Pamela Falk
of CBS
known as the
UN
Censorship
Alliance,
yesterday
trying to
block or
exclude a
question that
rebels may
have used
chemical
weapons in
Syria, click
here.)
Also this
(Reuters
as spy)
story, audio, document.
Inner
City Press has
repeatedly
asked the UN
whether this
for-pay
session by Jarba
(a/k/a
Jarbucks)
could
legitimately
be
called a "UN
briefing" --
still without
any answer. In
its
Race for
Relevance,
this UN will
do almost
anything.
Watch this
site.
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