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On W.
Sahara
Morocco's
Hilale Tells
ICP "It's
Over,"
Dujarric Tells
ICP, "I'm
Done"
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, April
1 -- UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon,
tellingly
though his
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric,
issued a
non-apology
apology to
Morocco on
March 28,
“regretting
misunderstandings.”
Even
some of those
close to Ban
tell Inner
City Press
that Ban cares
only a bit, or
only
belatedly, for
the Saharawis,
only that he
was
"personally
insulted" by
Morocco's
protests and
wants to
retaliate, as
his UN did on
Inner City
Press on
February 19 and
now.
While
Banned from
the Security
Council
stakeout but
not yet from
the UN Press
Briefing Room,
at least not
during the
noon briefing,
Inner City
Press on April
1 asked Ban's
Dujarric about
Western Sahara
and then
censorship,
and Dujarric
just walked
out, saying,
"I'm done."
On
March 31,
Inner City
Press asked
Morocco's
Ambassador
Hilale if you
would show the
proof he was
alluding to,
to a group of
invited
Moroccan and
French
journalists
(Inner City
Press was not
invited, but
present) and
Hilale said
no, saying he
would show
Dujarric.
Inner
City Press
also asked
Hilale if
those from
MINURSO in Las
Palmas should
stay; Hilale
replied, "For
us, it's
over." Video
here.
Inner
City Press
asked Duajrric
on March 31,
before his
April 1
walk-out
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