On
Syria, Qatar's
UNGA
Resolution
Proceeds, Amid
Vuk's Smoke on
Tribunals
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Scoop
UNITED
NATIONS, April
8 -- As UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon and
his
German
negotiator
Angela Kane
play chicken
with the
Syrian
government
on the scope
of the
requested
chemical
weapons probe,
another move
is
afoot at the
UN in New
York.
Inner
City Press has
learned of
another Qatar
sponsored
draft
resolution
making its way
to the UN
General
Assembly. A
draft was
completed last
Thursday,
April 4. Issues
include, of
course,
chemical
weapons: and
representation,
Syria's UN
seat, a "first
step on that
issue," as an
Inner City
Press source
put it.
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Also
involved in
drafting, the
sources say,
have been
Saudi Arabia and
the P-3 (France,
UK and US, an
acronym
some use).
Last
year when
Qatar's Nassir
Abdulaziz
Al-Nasser was
President of
the
General
Assembly, the
moves
were more out
in the open.
When
Syrian
Ambassador
Bashar
Ja'afari
objected,
asking under
what rule the
sponsors were
proceeding,
Nassir
Abdulaziz
Al-Nasser
dismissed the
question,
saying merely,
we have the
votes.
Now
Vuk Jeremic,
Serbia's
former foreign
minister, is
General
Assembly
President. Ja'afari
praised him,
here.
From
inside the
PGA's Office
in the
increasingly
empty
North Lawn
Building,
where Nassir
Abdulaziz
Al-Nasser's
chief of
staff the
slayer of
Javier Ruperez
once held
court, Inner
City Press
is exclusively
told of cigar
smoking and
dark talk.
Jeremic's
focus
is on the UN's
ad hoc
tribunals, the
session
scheduled for
April 10, now
with Ban
Ki-moon
attending
between Pope
Francis
and a
Washington
visit to
Barack Obama.
So will
Qatar's Syria
resolution
have to wait?
Watch this
site.
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