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French ex-PM suggests oil embargo to stop Darfur genocide
Tuesday 27 February 2007 00:55.
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Feb 26, 2007 (PARIS) — French former Prime Minister has urged Monday
strong measures against Sudan to stop what he described as genocide in
Darfur. He further said that an oil embargo could force Sudan to stop
this human tragedy.
Laurent Fabius, a former Socialist French prime minister and a senior
member of Ségolène Royal’s presidential election campaign team, has
called for "strong measures" in the UN Security Council, including an
oil embargo, to stop the "genocide" in the Sudanese province of Darfur.
Fabius told French Europe 1 radio that he had spent several days in
camps on the border between Chad and Darfur. "This is really hell,
there’s no other word for it, it’s hell," he said. "Three hundred
thousand people have been killed in four years, with the active
complicity of Sudan’s president."
Fabius said the international community was not doing anything, "so
France must really say loud and clear that there must be an end to what
is the biggest massacre at the start of the 21st century". He criticized
President Jacques Chirac for receiving Sudanese President Omar Hassan
al-Bashir, "a chief slaughterer", in Cannes earlier this month for the
24th France-Africa summit.
"First there are gestures to be made in the humanitarian field, to
provide funds so that people can be received," he said, "and then there
are strong gestures to be made in the Security Council, by accusing
notably China, which is blocking things." He added that "this is a
region as big as France which is going to be emptied of its population
little by little. This is genocide."
According to Fabius, "Sudan cannot exist if the international community
imposes an embargo". "If an embargo, notably an oil embargo, were to be
decided on, believe me, things would change," he said.
Laurent Fabius, who served as prime minister from 1984 to 1986, joined
Ségolène Royal’s "presidential pact team" last week, together with other
senior Socialist Party politicians. He was given special responsibility
for foreign affairs.
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