On
Syria,
Moroccan
Follows Mood,
Still Mystery,
Guehenno in
NY, Annan to
Doha
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
April 16, updated
below --
As Kofi Annan
and his Arab
League
selected
deputy Nasser
el-Kidwa head
to Doha, and
his first
chosen deputy
Jean-Marie
Guehenno has
been spotted
in New York by
Inner City
Press, the
mystery of
Annan's
Norwegian
General Robert
Mood remains
unresolved,
even to some
senior UN
officials.
Saturday
at the UN Russia's
Permanent
Representative
Vitaly Churkin
told Inner
City Press
that Mood
was
unprofessional
for leaving
Damascus
while Foreign
Minister
Moellem was
away from a
day in Moscow.
Meanwhile
Syria's
Permanent
Representative
Bashar
Ja'afari told
Inner City
Press his
government
wanted Mood to
return.
On
Monday after
Inner City
Press asked
about it at
the noon
briefing, Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesman
Eduardo Del
Buey provided
the same
answer as
Annan's Amhad
Fawzi,
with the
additional
detail of
Mood's
replacement's
name and
nationality:
Subject:
Your
question at
the briefing
From: UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not Reply
[at] un.org
Date: Mon, Apr
16, 2012 at
4:34 PM
To:
Matthew.Lee
[at]
innercitypress.com
Major-General
Mood
went to
Damascus from
5 - 10 April
to discuss the
modalities of
the eventual
deployment of
a UN
supervision
mission. He
then came to
Geneva to
report to the
Joint Special
Envoy on 11
April. As is
mission was
accomplished,
he returned to
Norway. The
advance team
in Damascus
was being led
by Moroccan
Colonel Ahmed
Himiche.
Update
of April 18:
Inner City
Press is
informed by a
non-Secretariat
source that
this Ban
spokesperson's
email's
spelling is
incorrect, it
is "Hemaish."
Even
among Ban
Ki-moon's
inner circle
some drew a
link between
Morocco
leading an
advance team
to Syria for
which Ban
demands
freedom of
movement, and
Ban's UN in
Western Sahara
accepting
limitations on
its free
movement, as
reflected even
in the final
MINURSO report
as watered
down,
allegedly by
not only
Morocco but
France.
In
front of the
Security
Council on
Monday it was
argued that
France has
made it a
mission to
undermine
democracy in
Western
Sahara. The
briefing on
that will be
April 17 at 10
am, bookended
by a briefing
about Sudan by
Thabo Mbeki at
11:30 am.
Update
of 5:50 pm
-- in a closed
door meeting
Monday
afternoon of
troop
contributing
countries on
the "Advance
Team to Syria"
held by the
UN's
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations
Office of
Military
Affairs,
sources
complained to
Inner City
Press that a
representative
of Syria was
present. But
they remain a
member state,
no? And many
countries
attended which
will never
send personnel
to Syria. Why
all the
secrecy?
Asked who made
the
presentation,
an attendee
said, "you
know, that guy
with DPKO's
Military
Adviser, the
French
guy."
Which of the
many French
guys? Watch
this site.
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