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At UN's Gaza Meeting, Croatia Corrects CNN Report They Leave
the Council on Jan. 1
Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of
Inner City Press at the UN: News Analysis
UNITED NATIONS,
December 31 -- As the UN Security
Council's New Year's Eve meeting about Gaza proceeds and the resolution
introduced by Libya circulates, two representatives of Croatia's, the
Council
president for December, emerged from the chamber and approached Inner
City
Press. We need your help, they said. CNN just reported that Croatia is
leaving
the Council tonight. But we have another year. We need to get it
corrected.
Inner City
Press escorted them up to CNN's office. Both of them showed
Blackberries full
of queries about Croatia's future on the Council. "Half of Europe is
watching," one of them said.
Up in CNN,
long-time correspondent Richard Roth was diplomatic.* He said if he was
allowed
to be more at the UN, the reference would not have happened. He
promised to
correct it.
* - his
show Diplomatic License is much missed at the UN
UN Ban and the President and UN
Ambassador of Croatia, disappearance not shown
On the way
down, the Croatians confirmed to Inner City Press that if the meeting
goes
until midnight, it would have to be suspended, and the five Council
members which
unlike Croatia are actually leaving: Italy, Indonesia, Panama, Belgium
and South
Africa. Then the five new members would have to seated: Austria,
Turkey,
Mexico, Japan and Uganda. The change makes the Libyan introduced
resolution harder
to pass, even disregarding the anticipated use(s) of the veto.
The
Croatians also confirmed to Inner City Press that they had finessed the
Arab
Group's December 30 request that the Council's President Neven Jurica
write a
letter to Israel on behalf of the Council demanding a cessation of air
strikes.
Instead, Jurica formally handed the Ambassador of Israel and the
Permanent
Observer of Palestine copies of the three-paragraph press statement he
had read
out at 2 a.m. on December 28. We could have screwed that one up, one of
the
Croatians in essence said. There are four more hours to do so, Inner
City Press
noted. Two hundred minutes, the Croatian corrected. CNN's correction is
still
awaited, and if seen will be reported on this site.
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