As
Syria
Names 10 Dead
Foreign
Fighters, [DPKO]
to Damascus
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
May 16, modified
May 17, 8am
-- Back on May
10 Syrian
Ambassador
Bashar
Ja'afari told
Inner City
Press that
among 10
foreign
fighters
killed in his
country were
nationals of
France and the
UK. Now Inner
City Press has obtained
Syria's list,
in Arabic, and
puts it online
here.
The
nationalities
listed also
include, as
did the 26
"detained Arab
nationals"
previously
published,
mostly
Tunisians, as
well as a
Saudi, an
Egyptian and
some dual
citizens. One
source mused
that the
Egyptian, from
his named,
"seems like a
Christian,
very strange."
We will see
what the
Security
Council and
its Counter
Terrorism
Committee do
about these
lists.
On
May 16 in
front of the
Security
Council UK
Ambassador
Mark Lyall
Grant told the
press that in
the coming
days
Jean-Marie
"Guehenno and
DPKO," the UN
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations,
will go to
Damascus, on
the political
track, with it
was hoped Kofi
Annan to
follow.
Later
on May 16,
Inner City
Press was
informed that
the request
was made for
DPKO [names
removed at
demand of UN
Secretariat]
unnamed, on
the issue of
the observers,
not the
political
track. [Material
removed at
demand of UN
Secretariat]
Inner
City Press
asked Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
about Rastan:
Subject:
Your
questions on
Rastan (Syria)
From: UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not Reply
[at] un.org
Date: Tue, May
15, 2012
To:
Matthew.Lee
[at]
innercitypress.com
On
Rastan,
we can say the
following:
The
UN
Supervision
Mission in
Syria (UNSMIS)
reports that
heavy fighting
took place
yesterday in
Tal Biseh and
Rastan and UN
military
observers
witnessed that
a highway in
the area had
been blocked
by Government
forces. A UN
military
observer
patrol helped
to de-escalate
the situation
and get the
highway opened
after
interaction
with
Government
Forces.
Watch
this
site.
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