UNITED
NATIONS, May
23, updated
-- Amid
charges by
South Sudan
that Khartoum
is
responsible
for a cut off
in the flow of
oil for export
and sale,
Sudan's
Permanent
Representative
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman arrived
at the UN
Security
Council
Thursday
morning, some
20 minutes
after US
Ambassador
Susan Rice.
Update:
leaving
the meeting,
Ambassador
Rice told
Inner City
Press it is
the US'
understanding
the oil has
started to
flow again.
She
emphasized:
started.
Inner
City Press
asked him
about the oil
flow dispute.
Daffa-Alla
Elhag
Ali Osman
opened a file
folder and
showed Inner
City Press a
series
of formal
documents.
First
was a letter
from Sudan's
Minister of
Petroleum to
his
counterpart in
Juba, saying
that the
claims of
Sudanese
governmental
involvement in
the cut off
pumping and
flow were
false.
Next
was what
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman said was
the signed
agreement
about
responding to
the "technical
issues" which
led to the
cut off; he
said that a
consortium of
oil companies,
not the
government,
was
responsible.
Update:
after the
meeting,
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman told
Inner City
Press that the
technical
issue was one
of water: too
much water in
the oil, which
could corrode
the pipes.
The
Council's
topic on
Thursday
morning was
Sudan and
South Sudan,
as
well as Abyei.
On Wednesday,
the UN sent
Inner City
Press a
belated
answer from
Herve Ladsous'
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations to
question asked
by Inner City
Press the
previous week:
Subject:
Regarding
your question
on Sudan
From: UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not
Reply [at]
un.org
Date: Wed, May
22, 2013 at
5:50 PM
To:
Matthew.Lee
[at]
innercitypress.com
In
response to
your recent
question on
reports of the
Chadian air
force
bombing
positions
inside Darfur
and on whether
Chadian troops
have
crossed into
Sudan:
On
18 May, a
patrol from
the joint
African
Union-United
Nations
mission
conducted an
assessment
mission to
Bamina, North
Darfur, where
an
attack on
Justice and
Equality
Movement-Sudan
members took
place. No
military or
armed elements
were observed
in the area.
So
was JEM lying?
Or was the UN
late? Watch
this site.
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