By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, September 19 -- At the UN on Monday, so much movement and so little truth. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met with Haitian President Michel Martelly and issued a read out that didn't even mention theabuse by Uruguayan UN peacekeepers that his Office said it being taken so seriously. Nor was cholera mentioned.
Ban met with the the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia Saud Al-Faisal and his read out mentioned a discussion of Yemen but not of Bahrain, despite for example Saudi Arabia's deployment of troops to Bahrain and unrest there even this week.
Inner City Press Monday at noon asked Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky whether in fact Bahrain was discussed, noting that Ban has previously been spoken to by Saudi Arabia about Bahrain. Nesirky said that he didn't know, that the read out said tha Ban and "the Foreign Minister exchanged views on a number of important issues in the region, including Yemen."
But did they discuss Bahrain? Nesirky wouldn't say. Video here.
Inner City Press has previously reported, based on well placed sources inside Ban's Department of Political Affairs, that after Ban proposed sending DPA's Oscar Fernandez Taranco to Bahrain, the Saudi's called Ban and "reamed him out." After that, Ban canceled the trip of Taranco, and there has been no envoy.
Some things, apparently, go without saying. Watch this site.
