I believe Zero has found a copy of the UN mediator's report and will post about it on Monday, so hopefully the issue will be cleared up then. The thing is, we do have to be able to quote from reliable scholars and journalists about what they've read in reports, or else we'd have to spend all our time in archives digging up primary-source material ourselves. I personally find it hard to believe that Mitchell Bard would have misquoted the UN report, but we'll see soon enough.
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Tony Sidaway wrote:
Secondly, the citation in question has been checked by me and others >against the primary source on the UN site and we cannot find the figure >that Bard attributes to it. I don't propose that we should class Bard as >unreliable, but we must not claim as a fact that the figure Bard cites is a >UN figure.