On
Syria, Brahimi
Now "In
Listening
Mode," to Meet
GA, Annan
& His Tool
Box
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 29 --
After Lakhdar
Brahimi's
initial flurry
of
interviews
from his
apartment in
Paris,
resulting in
him demanding
an
apology from
the Syrian
National
Council, he
has grown
increasingly
quiet in
public.
Following
Wednesday's
meeting with
the Security
Council,
spokesman
Ahmad Fawzi
emerged for
him, using
keywords that
appeared
to be agreed.
"He
is in a
listening
mode," Fawzi
told the
press, adding
that
Brahimi "has a
tool box."
This
was elaborated
slightly by
French
Ambassador
Gerard Araud,
whose month
a Council
president is
coming to an
end. Araud
told the press
that
also outgoing
Syria envoy
Kofi Annan's
Six Point Plan
represents the
tool box.
Araud
was asked, is
the Security
Council
united? No, he
said, "we are
deeply
divided."
Deputy
Secretary
General Jan
Eliasson,
meanwhile,
emerged and
said that
Brahimi has
"the full
support of the
Council." One
wag
muttered, "For
now."
Inner
City Press obtained
a copy of the
invitation
letter,
which said
each Council
member could
only have two
seats.
Inner
City Press
spoke one on
one with South
Africa's
Permanent
Representative
Baso Sangqu,
who said
"people must
talk" as
well as the
other agreed
to
description,
that Brahimi
is "in a
listening
mode."
Tellingly,
another
African
Permanent
Representative
came up and
asked Sangqu,
referring back
to Libya, "is
the Security
Council making
war?" No,
Sangqu assured
him, no.
People must
talk.
And
two people who
will talk,
Fawzi told the
press, are
Brahimi and
Kofi
Annan. Call it
the hand-over
of the
toolbox.
Earlier
on
Tuesday a
Security
Council source
told Inner
City Press
that the
General
Assembly would
hold a meeting
about Brahimi
on Tuesday,
September 4,
"since his
post was
created by the
GA." Inner
City Press tweeted
it.
Forty minutes
later, the
spokesperson
of the GA
President
confirmed the
meeting for
Tuesday at 4
pm. The PGA is
in Tehran for
the meeting of
the
Non-Aligned
Movement.
People must
talk, indeed.
Watch this
site.
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