On
"Shell
Statement,"
New Silence at
UN to 3:30, Or
Ambassadors at
4 or 5
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 4 --
With no
agreement on
the UN
Security
Council
proposed press
statement on
the shell on
Turkey first
draft by
Azerbaijan, a
new draft and
"silence
procedure"
have been
declared,
Inner City
Press is
reliably
informed,
until 3:30 pm
on
Thursday.
But
it is expected
that silence
will be
broken, Inner
City Press is
told,
triggering a
meeting at the
level of
Permanent
Representatives
at 4
or 5 pm. This
during a
previously
scheduled
closed door
consultation
on Mali and
the request
for a military
force from
ECOWAS to
"re-conquer"
the north of
that country.
Inner
City Press,
which first
published
Syria's letter
to the
Security
Council about
the shelling
-- even
Council
members said
they got it
first from
Inner City
Press, not
circulated by
the Council --
Thursday at 1
pm asked
Syrian
Permanent
Representative
Bashar
Ja'afari about
the letter and
the
fast-passed
Turkish law on
military
action outside
that countries
borders.
Ja'afari's
response
to Inner City
Press'
question, on
UNTV, included
that "the
Syrian
government has
a keen
interest in
maintain good,
neighborly
relationship
with Turkey..
and explaning
to the Turkish
people that
the Turkish
government's
policis toward
Syria are
wrong."
He
called on the
Turkish
government "to
help us
control the
border,
prevent armed
groups from
infiltrating
and to stop
the media
coverage
offered to the
headquarters
of armed
groups, some
of them are
within
Turkey's
territory."
Ja'afari
said
that there has
been no
apology
because the
investigation
is not
finalized yet.
For what it's
worth, Turkey
said there was
an apology.
As
to why
Azerbaijan is
in the lead in
the draft?
"It's an
Ottoman
thing," as a
source puts it
to Inner City
Press. Watch
this
site.
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