UNSC meeting failed to call for ceasefire in South Kordofan, Sudan says
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August 9, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – A meeting held on Tuesday between members
of the UN Security Council to discuss the situation in Sudan has
failed to yield a resolution binding the country to ceasefire with
rebels in South Kordofan State, a diplomat said.
Sudan has been battling fighters of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army
(SPLA) since early June in the volatile region of Kordofan which
borders the war-battered western region of Darfur and the newly
established state in South Sudan.
Dafa’a Allah Al-Haj Ali, Sudan’s permanent envoy to the UN, said that
the UNSC’s closed-door session held on Tuesday had received a briefing
from the UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie
Amos on the situation who spoke about the need of hundreds of refugees
for humanitarian assistance as well as the importance of declaring a
cessation of hostilities.
The Sudanese diplomat said that some countries led by the U.S and
France had demanded that the UNSC issues a statement obliging the
Sudanese government to ceasefire but the demand received objection
from the representatives of China, Russia, India and Lebanon which
argued that the information on atrocities committed in the region were
sourced from non-governmental organization and thus unverifiable.
Ali further said that the meeting was concluded without issuing a
resolution or statement. He, however, added that Washington, Paris and
Berlin hinted at the possibility of returning to discuss the issue.
Sudan has been at loggerheads with the UNSC since the latter voted on
29 July to pass a resolution extending the mandate of the UN-AU Joint
Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) for a year and instructing the
mission to prioritize protection of civilian and facilitation of
humanitarian assistance.
Khartoum severely criticized the resolution which, according to the
country’s foreign minister Ali Karti, included many negative signals
and false information. Karti said the resolution aims to “manipulate”
the mission’s mandate and tarnish the image of the country.
The already-tense relations between Sudan and the world body further
plummeted after the UN castigated Sudan for the death of three
Ethiopian peacekeepers serving with the UN Interim Security Force for
Abyei and who succumbed to their wounds awaiting medical evacuation
delayed by Sudanese authorities for three hours.
The UNSC on Tuesday issued a statement condemning “in the strongest
terms” acts of hostilities against peacekeepers in Sudan following the
death on Friday of a UNAMID peacekeeper from Sierra Leone in an attack
by identified gunmen in Darfur
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