Uribe to lead international panel on Israeli flotilla raid
By Daniel Brody, Editorial Director
Monday, August 2, 2010
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced on Tuesday that outgoing Colombian president Alvaro Uribe will be heading up a commission to investigate an Israeli raid on a Turkish flotilla that happened earlier this year.
Uribe, set to leave office this week, will be keeping busy as Vice President of the panel, which will be headed by former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer.
Uribe will be flying to New York on August 10 begin work on the committee, a mere three days after stepping down as president.
The panel was announced after two months of intense negotiations between Secretary-General Moon and the nations of Israel and Turkey.
The investigation will concern the raid by Israel on a Turkish fleet of boats in May of this year. The boats were heading to the Gaza Strip in defiance of an Israeli blockade that banned shipments of certain items to the region. When Israeli troops boarded the Turkish ships, a bloody confrontation ensued, leaving nine Turks dead and causing an international controversy.
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