The Supervisory Committee for the Execution of the Urgent Maintenance Agreement and the Comprehensive Evaluation of the Floating Tank “Safer” published today, Wednesday, a statement about the press interview of an American magazine with its president, Ibrahim Al-Siraji.
The committee said in a statement that Sputnik obtained a copy of this evening, Wednesday, that the American magazine “The New Yorker” published a report on the floating “Safer” tank, the day before yesterday, Monday, regarding the interview of the magazine’s journalist, Ed Sezer, with the head of the committee, Ibrahim Al-Saraji.
The committee confirmed that the journalist and the magazine were not honest in conveying the answers of the head of the committee, as they distorted them and published answers opposite to what Al-Sarraj gave, which was revealed by the context of the report, noting that the process of misrepresentation that took place shows that the magazine has a clear agenda, the goal behind which is to hide the truth And presenting a narrative that is completely inconsistent with reality.
The Supervisory Committee for the Execution of the Urgent Maintenance Agreement and the Comprehensive Evaluation of the Floating Tank “Safer” explained that the basis of the press dialogue with the American magazine is the maintenance agreement signed with the United Nations and the reasons for its failure. Agreed upon, but the magazine ignored all of that, and did not address it in the report it published.
The committee cited original texts of the dialogue and its distortions, between the journalist and Al-Sarji, including the latter’s opinion regarding his approval to empty the Safer tank of oil, which he clarified that it is not within his competence, but the committee is only concerned with supervising the implementation of the maintenance and evaluation agreement for the tank, signed with the United Nations, at a time when The distorted answer in the American magazine that Al-Sarraj will not allow oil to be drained from the Safer reservoir until peace is achieved.
The committee denounced the American magazine “The New Yorker” misleading public opinion, and its perpetration of a publishing crime represented in distorting a press interview, as it sent a letter to the same magazine, asking it to apologize and publish the clarification in the same space, as an act of the right of reply, while the committee retains the right to sue it before the competent courts. .