As Lanka Missive Blurs Silva Role in Ban's Experts Report, UN Omits to Check
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 02:28
By Matthew Russell Lee, Inner City Press, UNITED NATIONS,11 February 2012 - Late on February 9, after Inner City Press published brief questions and answers with Silva, Sri Lankan Permanent Representative Palitha Kohona and Ban himself, the Sri Lankan Mission sent a letter to Inner City Press, with copies to Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky and the President of the UN Correspondents' Association. These cc's may be as interesting as the letter itself. We publish the letter in full, here, and respond to it below.