Ban urges international participation credible in
Ban urges international participation "credible" in the investigation.
United Nations, June 8 .- The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, today insisted that any Israeli assault investigation of a fleet with humanitarian aid for Gaza should include international participation "credible" to meet the demands of the body .
"We would like to emphasize the position of secretary general of a credible international participation is crucial for a prompt, impartial and transparent as that asked the Security, darkfall gold, Council" on 31 May, said in a press conference the spokesman for the agency , Farhan Haq.
Also indicated that the UN has not received any "official response" from Israel to the proposals Ban transfer them over the weekend to investigate the incident last May 31 that killed nine people.
"The secretary general believes that Israel still considering, ffxiv gil, how and if it includes an international component to the investigation," he added.
The statements by the United Nations spokesman in line with what has been the position of the body from the first day of the crisis caused by the violent interception at sea of the "Freedom Flotilla," in which Ban called for an investigation "complete "facts.
At the same time, the Security, sto credits, Council adopted a statement in which it requested an impartial and credible investigation of the Israeli military assault.
Since then, Ban has held numerous telephone conversations with representatives of the Israeli government and several world leaders to find a consensus formula that allows to develop a research accepted by all parties.
United Nations has declined to confirm Israeli media reports, according to which Ban has proposed the establishment of a commission chaired by former New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer, an expert in maritime law.
This formula also include experts Americans and a Turkish representative and another Israeli.
Although some Israeli government representatives have expressed in recent days his refusal to a commission composed of foreign experts, the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, is still valued acceptable options for the international community.
According to the newspaper Haaretz, a group of seven Israeli Cabinet ministers on Monday agreed to establish a panel of jurists to investigate the facts, but Israel remains pending approval from Washington to launch the initiative.
In addition, the Israeli military announced Tuesday the appointment of a team of experts to investigate the assault on the international fleet, which sought to break the blockade imposed by the State of Israel to the Gaza Strip for more than three years.
Activists nine Turks died in the approach of May 31 by Israeli elite commandos to the ship "Mavi Marmara" when he addressed the Palestinian territory with humanitarian aid.
Israel maintains that the group of activists who attacked the commands that boarded the ship did not go up with the rest of the passage, but in another port, so that did not undergo security checks and carried weapons.
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