On
Yemen, After Saudi School
Bombing, ICP Asks UK When UNSC
To Meet, Draft, Jan 25?
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
January 12 – After another
Saudi-led Coalition bombing of
a school in Yemen, Inner City
Press on January 12 asked
Ambassador Matthew Rycroft of
the UK, the penholder on Yemen
in the UN Security Council,
what the Council intends to
do. Video
here (with Sweden's
Ambassador Olof Skoog), UK
transcript here:
Inner City Press:
On Yemen, the president just
said that they are looking for
a date, and you know this
school was bombed, what’s the
plan of the Council this month
as pen holder to actually have
a meeting or have the envoy
come. What’s happening?
Amb Rycroft:
Well, we are very keen to hear
back from Ismail Ould Ahmed.
He has our full support. As
you know, there is a draft
Security Council Resolution,
which we have drafted which is
sort of out there hovering
over the process and we are
very much in Ismail’s hands in
terms of whether and when it
would be useful to progress
that further here.
Because
essentially what that does is
to get the whole of the
Security Council behind his
roadmap and to push the
parties into a meaningful,
political process.
We haven’t got
that at the moment. There’s a
lot of diplomacy going on
behind the scenes, but what we
don’t have is a really
positive political process
leading towards a political
settlement. And I think all of
us around the Security Council
table, whatever our views on
the ins and outs of the
conflict, we are at least
united on that issue that
there must be a political
settlement.
Meanwhile it seems the UN
envoy Ismael Ould Cheikh
Ahmed, trying to stay in the
job, may brief the Security
Council on January 25.
New UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres has taken over from Ban
Ki-moon, who left amid
indictment of his brother and
nephew for UN-related
corruption, and failures in
Yemen including selling out to
the Saudis.
Inner
City Press asked Guterres about
Yemen at his first stakeout; he
said he'd be an honest broker.
Will he be, more
than in the UN press corps
today?
Ali
Saleh has written to Guterres, see
here, citing previous
meeting and asking to stop the
war and the killing. We'll have
more on this.
On
December 20 Inner City Press
asked UK Ambassador Matthew
Rycroft about Saudi Arabia's use
of UK cluster bombs. Tweeted
video here and hindered
production note.
Inner
City Press first
published the UK
draft resolution,
as credited by
Associated
Press, via Salon, Daily
Mail (UK), Fox
News
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