As
Brahimi Tells
ICP Statement
on Turkey
Would Be Good,
Syria
Says Not
Sufficient
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 3 --
Following the
shelling of
Akcakale in
Turkey,
Inner City
Press
witnessed
Turkish
Ambassador
Apakan going
into the
Security
Council.
Afterward
Inner City
Press asked
him, "Shell
related?" He
said yes,
"Shell-related."
When
Security
Council
president Gert
Rosenthal gave
a summary of
the
morning's
meeting on
Haiti, Inner
City Press
spoke with him
about
cholera in
that country
and asked
about this
"shell-related"
Turkish visit.
He confirmed
the visit and
said the
Council might
get
a
communication
from Turkey in
the afternoon.
When
at 5:35 pm
Council
president
Rosenthal read
out a press
statement on
the killing of
four UN
Peacekeepers
in Darfur, he
did not answer
a
Press
questions
about Darfur
but on Turkey
said yes the
Council might
issue a
statement, we
are waiting to
hear from the
Turkish
Ambassador.
Inner
City Press
conveyed this
to joint UN
and Arab
League envoy
Lakhdar
Brahimi, what
Rosenthal had
said about a
Council
statement.
Brahimi
replied, "On
Turkey? That's
good."
Syria's
Permanent
Representative
Bashar
Ja'afari on
the other
hand, when
Inner City
Press told him
Rosenthal said
we are waiting
to hear from
Turkey,
replied "But
that is not
sufficient,
Turkey is
shelling
us."
So
would a
Council
statement at
this point
make any
mention of the
return of
fire? Watch
this site.
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