UNITED
NATIONS, May 5
-- While Syria
wrote to the
UN Security
Council on
Sunday morning
about Israel's
air attacks,
it did not
request a
Council
meeting, only
that the
Council
"shoulder its
responsibility."
Meanwhile,
both
US Ambassador
Susan Rice and
UK Ambassador
to Jordan
Peter
Millett have
expressed
disappointment
at the lack of
agreement in
the
Security
Council to
visit Jordan,
or to visit
only Jordan.
Russia
is said to
have agreed in
principle to a
visit to
Jordan -- IF
the
long requested
visit to
Palestine also
takes place.
The
visit has been
dangled
several times;
once after it
was pulled
back
Inner City
Press asked
Ambassador
Rice why it
had been an
acceptable
idea in the
morning, then
not some hours
later. She
called it a
package deal
-- that is,
not put a
resolution to
the vote and
"make"
the US veto.
And so it
goes.
Yesterday
Inner
City Press
reported,
without
quoting
Millett, on
the UK Embassy
in Jordan partnering
in full with
the ostensibly
independent
Reuters,
to train
Jordanians on
investigative
journalism
(while Reuters
tries
repeatedly to
get the
investigative
Press thrown
out of the
UN).
Now
with Millett tweeting
of the
Security
Council's
failure to
agree to
visit Jordan,
and that the
UK supported
the proposal,
it seems apt
to
look back at
Millett's
quote in what
was in essence
a Reuters
press
release on
its Thomson
Reuters / Trust.org site.
It
begins,
"Coinciding
with World
Press Freedom
Day, the
British
Embassy in
Amman and
Thomson
Reuters
Foundation are
pleased to
announce the
launch of a
one-year
project."
Then,
"The British
Ambassador
Peter Millett
said: 'A
responsible
and
professional
media is the
backbone of
any democracy,
and
journalists
have a key
role to play
in tackling
corruption. We
are happy to
support this
project
through our
Arab
Partnership
Programme and
to
share the UK’s
experience and
expertise in
this field.'"
Does
this mean that
Reuters
"expertise" is
the UK's? Voice of
America,
for example,
is
run by the US
State
Department.
But what is
the relation
between
Reuters and
the UK FCO?
Watch this
site.
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