Beran, thanks for your forward.  They think that they can intimidate the international community just like they do their citizens.  Yahya knows that naming Baba Jobe is synonymous to naming him.  I await the day we hand him over to the world body to join Melosovich for life.  The end is near for all of them.

Chi Jaama

Joe sambou

>From: Beran jeng <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: British, Americans React to Foreign Secretary
>Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 16:57:29 -0400
>
>British, Americans React to Foreign Secretary
>
>
>
>
>The Independent (Banjul)
>
>July 2, 2001
>Posted to the web July 2, 2001
>
>Alhagie Mbye
>Banjul, the Gambia
>
>Following a terse statement from The Gambia's Foreign Secretary
>which
>questioned the credibility of a UN Security Council travel ban on
>Baba Jobe,
>western diplomats have maintained that the decision to include him
>in the
>list of banned individuals was not a trilateral initiative as was
>alleged
>but a unanimous one.
>
>Denying any overt involvement of the United Kingdom to include Mr
>Jobe who
>is the Assistant Secretary at the Office of the President a
>statement from
>the British High Commission last Friday said the decision to slap an
>indefinite ban on Mr. Jobe was unanimously endorsed by the 15-member
>Security Council and reflects the view of the international
>community on
>those who were thought to have contributed to the illicit trade in
>blood
>diamonds from Liberia and Sierra Leone and arms trafficking across
>West
>Africa.
>
>The Gambian Foreign Secretary Momodou Lamin Sedat Jobe had in a
>letter to
>the Security Council stated among other things that he was informed
>that
>Baba Jobe's inclusion on Resolution 1343 came after France, United
>States
>and Britain prevailed upon the Security Council to include him on
>it. The
>British High Commission however, insisted that there was no back
>door
>influence from any of the three powers to have Mr. Jobe included in
>the ban.
>
>The British High Commission statement emphasized that the UK
>Government
>"will of course enforce the Resolution as it does all similar
>instruments
>and would expect fellow UN member states to do the same".
>
>When contacted the Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States
>Embassy in
>Banjul Brian Browne noted "I have read the text of the letter
>Secretary of
>State Jobe wrote to the president of the Security Council. Due to
>the fact
>that the issue of Baba Jobe's inclusion in the travel ban has been
>raised in
>such a manner, and that the letter begs a UN response, it would be
>inappropriate to comment on the many issues raised in the letter.
>The
>resolution was a UN action and now that the letter is before the UN,
>it is
>most proper to let that process take its course.
>
>"I also note the articles that have been written including the one
>in this
>very paper, reporting that the US has been blamed for Baba Jobe's
>inclusion
>in the travel ban. Your paper is entitled, as is every individual,
>to its
>opinions as to what was intended by the letter's references to the
>US.
>However, as a diplomat it would be inappropriate to speculate in a
>public
>forum as to what was or was not intended by these references. Thus,
>I will
>not engage in the idle speculation as to the writer's intent. One
>thing that
>I can tell you for certain is that, as of the date of that letter,
>Secretary
>of State Jobe had never met nor consulted with the Ambassador,
>myself, nor
>any member of our diplomatic staff on this issue.
>
>"Notwithstanding the news articles, it seems that attention has
>shifted away
>from the issue of utmost importance. The resolution represents the
>work and
>collective will of the United Nations and the international
>community to put
>an end to the fighting and violence in Sierra Leone. As such, the
>resolution
>not only has a noble purpose, it carries the weight of law. We
>should all be
>mindful of the hundreds of thousands of innocent people whose lives
>have
>been hijacked due to the unrest. To help bring peace, the rule of
>law and
>development to these battered people, my country will do its utmost
>to
>implement the resolution and to honour its spirit. Any individuals
>and any
>nations who aspire to be responsible members of the international
>community
>should seek to implement to the best of their ability this and all
>other
>resolutions pertaining to Sierra Leone."
>
>Attempts to get a reaction from the French Consul were unsuccessful.
>
>
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