UNITED
NATIONS, June
7 -- The day
after Austria
announced it
will pull its
troops out of
the UN mission
in the Golan,
UNDOF, the
Security
Council
president of
June UK
Ambassador
Mark Lyall
Grant came out
of
the Council to
read a press
statement.
Lyall
Grant said,
"The members
of the
Security
Council...
noted with
grave concern
that there
have been a
number of
incidents
threatening
the safety and
security of UN
personnel in
recent months
and
underscored
they would
continue to
monitor the
situation
closely."
Inner
City Press
asked Lyall
Grant, of this
"monitoring,"
if it
included
looking into
the
allegations by
Syrian
Ambassador
Bashar
Ja'afari of
involvement
from Qatar in
the kidnapping
of UNDOF
peacekeepers,
through the
Yarmouk
Martyrs
Battalion.
Lyall
Grant said
that issue --
which Ja'afari
raised in an
open meeting
of
the General
Assembly --
had not come
up in the
Council, but
noted
that there
would be a
consultation
on UNDOF later
in the day,
including a
briefing by UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous.
It
was Ladsous to
whom Syria
presented what
it told Inner
City Press is
evidence of
the
involvement
from Qatar.
Both on June 4
and, having no
answer, again
on June 7
Inner City
Press asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
if Ladsous is
in fact
looking into
the
involvement of
Qatar.
Syria's
representative
at the UN
Human Rights
Council in
Geneva said so
in an
open meeting
on June 4;
later that day
Nesirky said
he would ask
the
UN Department
of
Peacekeeping
Operations,
DPKO.
At
the June 7
noon briefing
Nesirky said
the same thing
about asking
DPKO. But
sitting in the
briefing room
was DPKO's and
Ladsous' lead
spokesman
Kieran Dwyer.
Why not just
ask him them?
Or have him
answer? Dwyer
has, on
camera,
justified DPKO
chief Herve
Ladsous'
refusal to
answer Inner
City Press
questions - video here - and has no provided
the update on
the 135 Minova
raped by the
Congolese Army
Inner City
Press asked
Ladsous for on
May 29.
Ladsous said,
"You
know I do not
respond to
you." Nor has
DPKO or the
UN, since.
Zero
tolerance,
indeed. Watch
this site.
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