On
Syria, China
Li Baodong
Tells ICP of
Meeting P5
& Morocco,
More
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
March 6 -- On
March 5
China's
Permanent
Representative
Li
Baodong told
Inner City
Press
exclusively
that there
would be
Security
Council
consultations
on Syria on
Tuesday.
Others scoffed,
saying he must
be
conflating the
scheduled
briefing by UN
Humanitarian
chief Valerie
Amos,
canceled once
Syria agreed
to let her in
March 7 to 9.
Inner
City Press
late Monday
asked Council
president for
March Mark
Lyall Grant of
the
UK if there
would be
Syrica
consultation
of the
"Permanent
Five
Plus One." He
asked who the
One was.
Morocco, Inner
City Press
replied.
"Consultations
continue,"
Lyall Grant
said then
left. Inner
City Press reported
it; the UK
Guardian
called it UN
gossip.
As
the Security
Council held
an opening
meeting
Tuesday
morning about
Sudan, at
10:30
am China's
Permanent
Representative
Li Baodong
came down the
stairs
to the
Council.
He stopped and
begin telling
Inner City
Press, "We
had some
bilateral
consultations
on Syria and
hopefully we
can have
consultations
today, P5 plus
Morocco. We
had a meeting
with Valerie
Amos."
Just
then a Gulf
TV channel
mocked by
Syria ran up,
and Li Baodong
switched his
presentation
to, we hope
for a
briefing, to
ease the
humanitarian
situation in
Syria.
Moments
later
Inner City
Press asked
another
delegation
about Li
Baodong's
candid
statement, and
it was
confirmed: a
P5 plus
Morocco today.
Something is
afoot. Watch
this site.
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