By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
June 30 -- The
UN told Inner
City Press on
June
21 that its
report on the
killing at
Houla in Syria
had been given
to the
Secretariat
and would soon
pass to the
Security
Council.
But
more than a
week later, on
June 29
several
Council
members
complained to
Inner
City Press
that the
report was
being
withheld.
"Ladsous has
had
it for three
days," a
Security
Council member
told Inner
City
Press on the
night of June
29, referring
to the chief
of UN
Peacekeeping
Herve Ladsous.
"He's sitting
on it - why?
Does it
not
sufficiently
blame the
government?"
It
certainly
seems
strange.
(In
new-found
fairness to
Ladsous, it
may be that
Ban Ki-moon is
really the
party to be
blamed.)
And
so, while in
Geneva the
"final
declaration"
of Joint
Special Envoy
Kofi
was moved back
from 7 am New
York time to 8
am and still
hadn't
happened 20
minutes after
that, Inner
City Press
asked Annan's
spokesman
Ahmad Fawzi:
what
is
your
understanding
of why the
UNSMIS report
on the Houla
killings
has still not
be given to
the Security
Council
members? Has
the JSE
seen it? If
so, what does
he think of
it?
can you
provide a
comment on why
the JSE's
final
declaration
didn't happen
at 7 am NY
time, nor at
the new time
on UN TV
schedule, 8
am? When do
you think
it will
happen?
Can
you comment on
several
Security
Council
members
yesterday
telling Inner
City Press
they've been
informed
UNSMIS will be
converted to a
political
mission and
General
Mood will
leave? July 20
or July 23?
Back on
June 16, Fawzi
rather than
answer
Inner City
Press'
questions
about its exclusive
on Ladsous'
notice to the
Security
Council that
UNSMIS has
limited its
mobile
operations on
6 pm on June
15 said, you've
already asked
the UN in New
York. This
time, we
haven't. Watch
this site.
