Of
News of
Brahimi's 3000
Peacekeepers,
Syria Calls It
Rumor,
Rice Hasn't
Heard
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 15 --
Amid
conflicting
reports if
envoy Lakhdar
Brahimi is or
is not
proposing
3,000
peacekeepers
for Syria, at
the
UN on Monday
morning Inner
City Press
asked Syrian
Ambassador
Bashar
Ja'afari about
the reports.
"It
could be a
rumor,"
Ja'afari told
Inner City
Press, "it's
an
old idea." He
advised
waiting for
when Brahimi
returns to New
York.
Moments
later,
Inner City
Press asked US
Ambassador
Susan Rice
about the
reports of
Brahimi
proposing
3,000
peacekeepers.
"I haven't
heard anything
about it,"
Rice replied.
Russian
Ambassador
Vitaly Churkin
indictated the
same.
But
the media
circulates
reports that
the European
Union, fresh
off its
Nobel Peace
Prize win, has
"approved" a
plan from
Brahimi
for 3,000
peacekeepers.
Qatar's
foreign
minister
chimes in that
they
should be well
armed.
It
was from
Baghdad that
Brahimi was
quoted denying
the 3,000
peacekeeper
plan
attributed to
him by the
Syrian
National
Council.
But now what
will Brahimi
say? Watch
this site.
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