Drumbeats of War - Syria Statement Passed By UN Security Council
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012What a surprise.
Yesterday, the French were saying let’s look at this thing for a week or so. But then there was a sudden surge of urgency, not least on the part of the Russians, and it was quickly passed.
So today we have the official Presidential Statement On The Joint Special Envoy For Syria of March 21, 2012, and the accompanying… and somewhat more visible… official UN press release about the Statement. The links to the documents are so you can contemplate them in their full glory at your leisure. Interestingly, it was insisted by someone at the meeting (although it is not clear who it was) that both be passed at exactly the same time by the UN Security Council.
And pass them they did. All 15 members of the Security Council. Including prior holdouts Russia and China. Which is the real surprise to almost everyone. But not everyone.
I say not everyone, because it seems something dark is going on behind the scenes, sheltered from the light of public scrutiny. Otherwise what happened makes no sense at all.
But more about that later. On to the particulars….