As
France Hypes
on Syria, Ban to
Iran, Pakistan
Sends DPR,
Colombia
Holguin
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 27 --
With France
making more
noise about
Syria as
its month atop
the UN
Security
Council comes
to a close,
Inner City
Press on
Monday asked
at what level
Council member
Pakistan will
be
represented at
Thursday's
ministerial
meeting.
Deputy
Permanent
Representative,
came the
answer.
Colombia,
meanwhile,
tells Inner
City Press
that its
Patricia
Holquin will
be
attending.
Recently she
and the rest
of the
government
resigned,
calling her
previously
RSVP-ed
presence into
question. But
it is back
on, even if
the government
in Bogota
won't confirm
Telesur that
it is
negotiating
with the FARC.
While
French
Ambassador
Araud was
evasive as he
entered the
Security
Council Monday
morning, later
a
non-Permanent
5 Permanent
Representative
told Inner
City Press
Lakhdar
Brahimi will
meet with
the Council on
Wednesday.
There is talk,
too, of a
lunch with
ministers on
Thursday.
Meanwhile
another
anti-Assad
Arab dipomat
scoffed to
Inner City
Press, they
are
just talking,
just giving
him more time.
The
Syria issue
was everywhere
and nowhere at
the UN on
Monday. A
conference on
Small Arms
began, with
the Small Arms
Survey rating
Switzerland
the tops in
weapons export
transparency.
But Swiss
grenades
showed up in
Syria, through
the United
Arab Emirates,
an
opaque
pass-through
of arms.
Ahmad
Fawzi, the
spokesman for
Kofi Annan who
leaves the
envoy post in
just
four days,
buzzed around
the North Lawn
past 7 pm,
seemingly
already
hired to speak
for Lakhdar
Brahimi.
In a parallel
universe
Ban
Ki-moon held a
photo op and
seminar with
those he'd met
JFK with
fifty years
ago, then
headed to a
dinner at the
(South) Korean
mission.
There's still
talk of him
meeting the
North Korean
Number
Two at his
next stop,
Iran. And will
he be talking
Syria? Watch
this
site.
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