Syria
Aid Text May
Not Reach
Raqqa, UK Denies
P5 Rule As
France Picks
Scribes
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 2 -- A
Syria
humanitarian
access
Presidential
Statement was
adopted by the
UN Security
Council on
Wednesday that
establishes
some positive
precedents
while having
holes in
implementation.
Inner
City Press
asked
Ambassador
Sylvie Lucas
of Luxembourg,
which along
with Australia
drafted the
statement, if
she thought
that armed
groups like
ISIS,
threatening
aid workers in
Jarabulus and
in al
Raqqa, will
listen to the
statement. Video
here, from
Minute 7:55.
Lucas
said that
Valerie Amos,
the UN's top
humanitarian
who was
standing
next to the
stakeout,
could answer
on with whom
the UN is in
contact.
Lucas also
said that,
contrary to
reports, no
one had
"broken
silence" on
the draft
statement.
(Several
Western-side
media
reported
Russia had
broken
silence.)
Inner
City Press
asked Valerie
Amos about the
ISIS threats
in Jarabulus,
which were
confirmed to
the Free
UN Coalition
for Access
@FUNCA_info
by Amos' EU
counterpart
Kristalina
Georgieva,
and if the UN
has any access
to al
Raqqa. Video
here, from
Minute 5:28.
Amos
said that UN
humanitarians
reach out as
much as
possible,
where they
have a
presence.
But
does the UN
yet have
access, Inner
City Press
followed up,
to al
Raqqa?
Amos
conceded, we
do not have a
physical
presence
there. Video
here from
Minute 6:42.
So what is
this
Presidential
Statement's
effect there?
Inner
City Press
asked UK
Ambassador
Mark Lyall
Grant about
this statement
having been
drafted by two
non-Permanent
members. Video
here from
Minute 3:50.
Lyall
Grant said
this was a
good thing,
and that
"contrary to
popular
opinion, the
Permanent
members"
encourage the
non Permanent
members to
take the lead.
But
this has NOT
been true on
the Security
Council's
Africa trip to
the
Great Lakes,
starting
tomorrow. For
that, Inner
City Press
which went
on such trips
in 2008 and
2010 was
rejected this
time; UN
spokesperson
Martin Nesirky
admitted on
camera that
the decision
was
made by
(Permanent
member)
France, as the
"mission in
the lead
on the whole
trip." Inner
City Press channel YouTube video here, from
Minute 0:41.
So
colonial
powerhouse
France was
allowed to
hand-pick the
scribes for
what is now
called its
Genocide
Joyride: Reuters
(whose bureau
chief has
spied for the
UN) and Voice of
America.
But the work
of Australia
and Luxembourg
as drafters
must be
praised -- as
must
Azerbaijan's,
as amended.
Inner
City Press
asked
October's
Council
president
Agshin
Mehdiyev of
Azerbaijan to
confirm that
the addition,
from the
September 28
draft
to the October
2 adoption, of
a line about
the
territorial
integrity
not only of
Syria but all
of "all other
States
affected by
the
Syrian
conflict" was
his country's
doing,
referring to
Armenia
not
re-settling
Armenians from
Syria in
Nagorno-Karabakh.
Mehdiyev
and
his deputy
said yes, it
was, and that
they got
another
change. And
that... is a
change.
France's
sleazy
handpicking of
scribes for
its Genocide
Joyride is a
blast from the
past, and the
silence or
acquiescence
of other
Council
members bodes
badly. We will
have more
on this.
Footnote:
Inner
City Press
asked Lyall
Grant why the
provision for
cross-border
aid had not
been applied,
despite two
years of
requests, to
Blue Nile
and Southern
Kordofan in
Sudan. He
replied that
there are
"blockages"
and perhaps
this Syria
statement
might change
that. We'll
see. Watch
this site.
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