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New
Syria Draft
Drops Assad
Delegating to
Deputy, France
Wants Vote
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 2 --
The new Syria
draft of the
UN Security
Council, as
obtained by
Inner City
Press and put online
here,
omits
Paragraph 7(b)
about
"delegation by
the President
of Syria of
his full
authority to
his Deputy."
There
are other
changes,
visible on the
text we are
putting online,
in HTML as a
courtesy after
push-back
about previously
publishing
track changes.
It can be
analyzed later
this morning:
the Security
Council
meeting to
discuss
the draft has
been moved
from 10 am to
3 pm on
Thursday
(ironically,
elsewhere in
Manhattan at
the Ritz
Carlton there
is a protest
against
Yemen's Ali
Saleh.)
French
Ambassador
Gerard Araud
on his way
into the
Council at 10
am spoke of
putting
the text "in
blue" on
Thursday
night, hoping
for a vote on
Friday.
 (c) UN Photo
Araud of
France
pointing
finger, Para
44 of LAS
Observer
Report not
shown
The
reference to
transfer of
power has been
dropped; some
are sure to
insist that it
is still in as
"subtext."
Watch this
site.
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Sept
23, '11
BloggingHead.tv
about UN
General
Assembly
Click
for Mar
1, '11
BloggingHeads.tv
re Libya, Sri
Lanka, UN
Corruption
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