Great Moments In Press Corps Sarcasm
May 29, 2007 at 8:30 pm
From today’s State Department press briefing on Darfur, with Andrew Natsios, Special Envoy to Sudan:
QUESTION: Yeah. Who do you have in mind that’s going to enforce this? The French?
MR. NATSIOS: Well, there’s no mechanism in the actual resolution. I haven’t read the text of it. You don’t put in UN resolutions who’s going to enforce it. You simply allow member-states to enforce it.
QUESTION: Exactly. So you know, who’s going to do that?
MR. NATSIOS: I mean, we’ll have to have those conversations if the sanctions resolution –
QUESTION: But if there isn’t anybody that has any — African air forces are not exactly the — you know, the best there are at enforcing these kinds of things.
MR. NATSIOS: I understand that.
QUESTION: The French have a big –
MR. NATSIOS: We’re going to get the resolution force through — the resolution document through first.
QUESTION: So there has been no thinking about who might –
MR. NATSIOS: There’s been a lot of thinking, but I’m not going to discuss it here in front of all of you.
QUESTION: Okay. Well.
MR. NATSIOS: Okay.
QUESTION: Good luck, then.
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