On
Syria
at SC,
Marginal 10
Brought In,
OPCW 1st &
As
Annex,
Lavrov Video
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 26
-- The deal on
Syria chemical
weapons was
cut
between John
Kerry and
Sergey Lavrov
in Geneva. But
it was France
which rushed
to be first to
announce that
a draft
resolution,
agreed
by the
Permanent Five
members of the
Security
Council, would
be
presented
Thursday night
at 8 pm to the
other ten
marginalized
Council
members.
While
some mistook
this to mean
that the
resolution
would be voted
on,
adopted, on
Thursday
evening, Inner
City Press'
inquiries
yielded
that the plan
is for the
OPCW in The
Hague to act,
then its text
will
be an annex to
the Security
Council
resolution.
While
all this went
on, France
sponsored a
meeting to
promote
Saudi-sponsored
Syria rebel
boss Ahmad al
Jarba, giving
Jarba fully
20 minutes to
speak. Click
here for
Inner City
Press' pre-meeting
story.
While the
French
invitation,
selectively
sent out, said
there
would be no
stakeout, then
minister
Laurent Fabius
said he wanted
to
speak.
Perhaps
made
irrelevant on
Iran -- it was
the UK, EU,
German, US and
Iran who
spoke --
France wants
to try to own
Syria. They
did in the
past, it's
noted. But
those days are
over. Watch
this site.
Footnote:
the
conditions for
reporting at
the UN
Security
Council
stakeout on
Thursday were
terrible.
There was no
place to type;
when Russia's
Lavrov stopped
and spoke, few
could here
him. (Inner
City Press
filmed
a video and
put it online
here.)
Since June,
the Free
UN
Coalition for
Access @FUNCA_info has pressed the
Department of
Public
Information
for better
conditions:
tables to type
on, electrical
outlets. Now
with more
journalists on
the scene, and
table have
been put
temporarily in
the stakeout
for the
traveling
press (then
removed),
has the time
come for
reform? Watch
this site.
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