For
UNSC November
of Senegal,
Ladsous on W
Sahara, DRC
Trip, No
Answer On
Somalia Yet
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 1 --
When
Ambassador
Fode Seck of
Senegal, the
president of
the UN
Security
Council for
November, took
questions
on the program
of work on
November 1, of
the more than
12 questions
none were on
Syria. Yemen
was only
allowed to be
raised near
the end, and
Western Sahara
(by Inner City
Press) only at
the very end.
On
that, while
not listed on
the Program of
Work, Herve
Ladsous the
fourth
Frenchman in a
row to run UN
Peacekeeping,
will brief
about a visit
many called
tellingly
limited.
Inner
City Press
asked asked
Fode Seck
about Al
Shabaab's
advances in
Somalia, if he
thought the
Council will
take that up
or just wait
for a future
regularly
scheduled
briefing. This
question
hasn't been
answered yet.
Inner City
Press, as the
Free UN
Coalition for
Access monthly
does, asked
him as
President of
the Council to
do question
and answer
stakeouts
after
consultations.
On a day when
Ban Ki-moon
fired the
Kenyan force
commander of
UNMISS in
South Sudan as
a scapegoat
for Ladsous,
just as
Senegal's
Babacar Gaye
was used as
Ladsous'
scapegoat for
the rapes in
the Central
African
Republic which
continued
after he was
fired, Fode
Seck noted his
country's
interest in
peacekeeping.
Senegal has,
in fact,
forces in
Haiti - but
that country,
and Ban's
eleventh hour
cholera
proposal, was
not able to be
raised.
There will be
debates on
water and
security, UN
Police, the
OIC and
African Union;
there will be
Arria formula
meetings on
cyber and
separately
Da'esh.
There
will be a trip
to the DR
Congo --
Kinshasa, Goma
and Beni --
from November
11 to 14, and
the “Finnish
Workshop” on
November 3
(post Ladsous)
and 4. Will
anything be
accomplished
on Yemen? On
Syria, on
which no
questions were
asked? Watch
this site.
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