By
Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 19 --
Back on November
7, Inner
City Press
asked UN
spokesperson
Farhan Haq
about Irish UN
peacekeepers
getting
shelled in the
Golan -- who
did it?
Haq
said, " In
this case, the
firing was by
the Syrian
Arab Armed
Forces and
protest was
made to the
Syrian Arab
Armed Forces.
But as
Inner City
Press pointed
out even that
day,
"Ireland has
said that it
was a
firefight
between the
Government and
opposition
forces in
Durbol."
On
December 16,
Inner City
Press asked
Syrian
Permanent
Representative
Bashar
Ja'afari about
the Golan,
including
statements by
Israel's
defense
minister that
Israel was
delivering aid
into Syria
through the
Golan,
reportedly
"mediated" by
the UN mission
UNDOF. Inner
City Press YouTube
video here
and embedded
below.
Ja'afari
said
his country
had protested
to the
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations
under Herve
Ladsous, who
previously
refused to
follow up on
involvement
from Doha in
the kidnapping
of UN
peacekeepers
by the Yarmouk
Martyrs
brigade
rebels.
Ja'afari
said
his Mission
would be
writing to the
UN about what
he called the
Office of the
Spokesperson
of the
Secretary
General's
misstatements.
Inner
City Press
immediately
e-mailed the
top two UN
spokespeople,
asking them
for their
response to
what Ja'afari
had said. The
first day,
there was no
response. The
next day, a
discussion
took place
trying to
determine the
complaint, and
get a
response.
Still, no
response.
Now
Inner City
Press has
obtained and
is exclusively
publishing the
Note Verbale
dated December
16 from the
Syrian
Mission, here.
It addresses
the November 7
(mis)
statements,
the aid from
Israel
including
statements by
the Israeli
defense
minister, and
the "missed"
-- kidnapped
-- nuns of
Ma'aloula.
Now
will the UN
Spokesperson's
office
respond, as
Inner City
Press
requested on
December 16?
Update:
Inner City
Press asked UN
Spokesperson
Farhan Haq
about this at
the December
19 noon
briefing. He
confirmed
receipt of the
Note Verbale
and said his
Office is
checking with
other UN
offices --
that is, the
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations
which gave out
the
information
that Syria's
government did
it. Haq said
he would
inform of any
needed
correction or
amendment.
Watch this
site.
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