On
Yemen, Closed
UK Meeting at
UN, Ban
Requires
Minder, Silent
About Plane
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 21
-- The UN
Secretariat of
Ban Ki-moon's
bungling of
Yemen
mediation has
become ever
more clear,
according to
multiple
sources and
documents
exclusively
seen by Inner
City Press,
see below.
On August 18,
Inner City
Press exclusively
published the
proposal that
Ban's envoy
Ismail Ould
Cheikh Ahmed
made in
Kuwait.
This was the
proposal
described as
blatantly
one-sided that
led to a
collapse of
the talks, the
Saudi-led
Coalition
increased
airstrikes and
the death of
more
civilians.
According
to local media
the Saudis
threatened to
shoot down UN
aircraft -
click here.
Direct sources
have told
Inner City
Press the UN
envoy wanted
the Sanaa
delegation to
sign a waiver,
and to stop
over in Saudi
Arabia and be
searched.
Would the UN
go public if
this were
true? No,
under Ban
Ki-moon. His
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric has
refused to
confirm or
deny or
comment for
two days now.
Meanwhile
early on
September 21
there was a meeting
on the
humanitarian
situation in
Yemen held in
UN basement
Conference
Room 12, sponsored
by the UK.
In order to
stake it out,
Inner City
Press was
required by
Ban Ki-moon's
eviction order
to seek a
minder, which
are first was
withheld. By
the time Inner
City Press was
escorted, all
participants
were inside
the closed
meeting.
Inner City
Press observed
Grandi of
UNHCR leave
the meeting at
8:30, and WFP
Cousins walk
right by
minutes later.
What is the UN
doing in
Yemen, after
Ban Ki-moon
sold it out?
We'll have
more on this.
On September
14 the Saudi
ambassador to
the UN wrote
to the UN
Security
Council to
complain -
belatedly, in
the case of
events of
August 31 - of
attacks from
Yemen, saying
Saudi Arabia
reaffirms “its
right to take
all
appropriate
measures.” Letter
posted on
Facebook, here.
But they've
already been
engaged in
airstrikes all
over. Some
have wondered
what the
response to
Javad Zarif's
op-ed in the
New York Times
would be.
Now
there is a
response to
the Saudi
letter, from
the Iranian
mission to the
UN:
"The
Permanent
Mission of the
Islamic
Republic of
Iran to the
United Nations
categorically
rejects the
allegations,
as contained
in Saudi
Arabia’s
letter to the
President of
the Security
Council, dated
14 September
2016,
regarding arms
transfers to
Yemen and
violations of
Security
Council
Resolution
2216
This letter
includes
unsubstantiated
claims that
have not been
verified by
any
independent
entity.
These
claims are
raised against
the numerous
confirmed
reports,
documenting
Saudi Arabia’s
war crimes and
violation of
international
law and
international
humanitarian
law. Saudi
Arabia has
engaged in a
year and a
half long wide
ranging, non
proportionate
and irrational
war against
the people of
Yemen, where
they have
undeniably
committed
crimes against
defenseless
women and
children.
Saudi Arabia
has also
decimated much
of Yemen’s
civilian
infrastructure
and not
hesitated to
destroy
schools and
hospitals.
It is
surprising
that Saudi
Arabia would
complain to
the United
Nations about
the use of
weapons in
Yemen even
while Saudi
Arabia itself
has purchased
tens of
billions in
arms that it
is using
against the
Yemeni people.
The Islamic
Republic of
Iran does not
believe in a
military
solution in
Yemeni and has
always urged
for cessation
of
hostilities,
dialogue and
resort to
legal and
peaceful
mechanisms to
achieve a
peaceful
resolution to
this conflict.
"
Meanwhile,
Inner City
Press is told
of a Yemen
meeting in
UNGA week,
convened by
the UK - at
7:30 pm. It's
never too
early when it
gets this
late. We'll
have more on
this. Watch
this site.
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