At
UN on
Terrorism, 50
Don't Join
Issue, Syria
Denounces
Turkey,
Selling by
Kilo
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 15 --
Fifty speakers
took on
terrorism in
the UN
Security
Council on
Tuesday;
outside the
Council the
number of
journalists
dwindled from
three to two
down to one.
Inside, few of
the speakers
directly
challenged
each other.
Israel's
Permanent
Representative
Ron Prosor
focused on
Hezbollah, a
"non state
actor." Russia
mentioned
the Kavkaz
Center,
criticizing
only
indirectly
Sweden for
hosting the
group's
website.
Syria's
Permanent
Representative
Bashar
Ja'afari was
an exception,
denouncing
Qatar, Saudi
Arabia and
Turkey, which
he said is
aiming to
recreate
an Ottoman
sultanate.
Later
outside the
Council,
Ja'afari
stressed to
Inner City
Press that
Turkey "took
1,500
factories and
even medical
facilities
from Aleppo"
in Syria
and "sold them
in Turkey by
the kilo."
Would there be
a
right to
reply? Qatar
and Saudi
Arabia were
scheduled to
speak,
perhaps
intentionally,
as numbers 48
and 50 out of
50.
Qatar
as it turned
out did not
speak; Saudi
Arabia
concluded that
fighting
terrorism
cannot justify
killing
civilians.
(Sri Lanka
Permanent
Representative
Palitha Kohona
had left).
There
were two
rights of
reply: Turkey
speaking
briefly of its
commitment to
helping
Syrians; Iran
taking on
Israel and
especially
Canada.
But
before then,
there were
many other
speakers.
Venezuela and
Cuba
zeroed in on
Posada's
attack on an
airliner in
1976. Uganda
said it
was victimized
by Al Shabaab
in 2010, and
is also faced
with the LRA,
and the ADF
from inside
the Congo.
Norway's
Permanent
Representative
Geir O.
Pedersen
raised the
mass shootings
of July 2011.
Cote
d'Ivoire, near
the end,
focused on
Mali.
Ambassador
Bamba on his
way
in stopped to
talk to Inner
City Press,
and invited
Chad to come
forward with
troops.
When Inner
City Press
raised
their concern
that a force
commander from
Nigeria had
been
selected with
no input from
outside ECOWAS,
Bamba said
this could be
addressed
among the
military
people. We'll
see. Watch
this site.
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