Russian
UN Draft on
Threats to
Damascus Diplomatic
Facilities
Shot Down,
Shot At
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 27, updated
-- When the UN
Security
Council met on
the Middle
East behind
closed doors
on Tuesday
morning, on
the topic of
Syria Russia
proposed a
statement
about threats
to diplomatic
facilities in
Damascus.
It was
immediately
questioned,
several
Council
members told
Inner City
Press, by the
United
Kingdom,
including by
asking what
new
information
had come to
light. (Russia
points at
shellings.)
Finally, it
seems, another
delegation
shot the
proposal down.
Afterward,
Inner
City Press
asked this
month's
Council
president
Hardeep Singh
Puri to
confirm it. He
did, adding
that India
would have
supported
Russia's
proposed
statement, unlike
some Council
members who do
not have a
diplomatic
presence in
Damascus. [India
does maintain
a diplomatic
presence in
Damascus,
Hardeep Singh
Puri came back
to tell Inner
City Press:
noted.]
When Russia last
proposed a
similar
statement, as
reported
by Inner City
Press, it was
after Internet
threats that
were later
blamed on
"hacking."
But hacking or
not, it seems
that in the
Security
Council today,
such a
statement will
not fly.
Meanwhile,
regarding
the rebels in
the Democratic
Republic of
the Congo who
also, if
belatedly,
speak about
government
corruption,
the Security
Council issues
edicts that
the groups
"disband." And
so it goes at
the UN.
Tuesday's open
Security
Council
session
consisted of a
short briefing
by Robert
Serry, who
canceled his
scheduled
question and
answer
stakeout with
the press.
Afterward,
Inner City
Press asked
Syria's
Permanent
Representative
Bashar
Ja'afari what
he thought of
Serry's
briefing.
Ja'afari
highlighted
that Serry
said an UNRWA
school in Gaza
was damaged in
fighting -
without saying
who damaged
it. That, too,
is how it goes
at the UN.
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