As
Brahimi to
Meet UNSC,
Members Even
P5 Get 2 Seats
Each, Feltman
Decrees
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 28 --
Can one trade
or scalp the
tickets for
the UN's
biggest
show?
The UN
Security
Council will
meet with new
Joint Special
Representative
on Syria
Lakhdar
Brahimi
tomorrow
afternoon.
But it will
not be in the
Council
chamber or its
consultations
room. It will
be in a
smaller room
in the
Department of
Political
Affairs, in
the UN's North
Lawn building.
On
August 27,
before heading
to Iran, DPA
chief Jeffrey
Feltman wrote
to this
month's
Council
president
Gerard Araud
of France,
inviting the
Security
Council member
to a meeting
with Brahimi
"in NL 2062."
Inner
City Press has
obtained a
copy of the
letter, and
now
exclusively
puts it online
here.
Feltman
wrote,
"Due to
limited space,
participation
will be
limited to one
principal and
plus [sic] one
adviser."
Araud,
of course,
already met
with Brahimi
in the North
Lawn on
Friday, August
24. But what
about the
others? US
Ambassador
Susan Rice
gave a speech
on August 28
in India, but
is expected
back in New
York for this
push on Syria.
Who would be
the two from
the US
Mission?
Council
members
not only like
France and the
UK but also
Morocco and
Colombia are
sending their
foreign
ministers. If
they arrive by
Wednesday
afternoon,
would the
Permanent
Representatives
become their
advisers?
Morocco
recently
failed in its
bid to get Ban
Ki-moon to
oust his envoy
on Western
Sahara,
Christopher
Ross. Ban will
be in Iran
during these
meetings,
leaving his
Deputy Jan
Eliasson
behind.
The
UK's Mark
Lyall Grant
has been away,
as has
Portugal's
Ambassador
Cabral.
China's Li
Baodong is
expected back;
Deputy Wang
has handled
the file in
his absence.
Would he be
the adviser?
Or
might
Feltman's
rules be bent?
Watch this
site.
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