At
UN,
Sudan on Oil
Police, S.
Sudan Cites
Bombing,
Speech Crimes
Alleged
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
June 14 --
After the UN
Security
Council met
Thursday about
Sudan and
South Sudan,
Inner City
Press put
similar
questions to
the
representatives
of each
country, on
camera.
South
Sudan's
Francis
Nazario spoke
first, and
Inner City
Press asked
him about his
government's
lead
negotiator
Pagan Amum's
statement that
Sudan is
conducting
aerial
bombardments.
Video
here, from
Minute 6:40.
Nazario
said yes,
there are
bombardments.
He named
Northern Bahr
al Ghazal,
Lake State
and Unity
State.
Inner
City Press
asked him
about South
Sudanese still
trapped in the
North; he said
that the
International
Organization
for Migration
is helping
resettle
them.
Moments
later
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman came
back to speak
-- he had
left, after
learning that
US Ambassador
Susan Rice had
spoken with
the Press but
not on Sudan
as she left
the Security
Council.
Inner
City Press
asked
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman about
another
comment by
Pagan Amum,
questioning if
Sudan wanting
to talk only
or first about
security,
and not oil or
Abyei is in
violation of
the letter or
spirit of
Council
Resolution
2046. Video
here,
Minute 7:20 to
13:20.
Daffa-Alla
Elhag
Ali Osman
replied
quickly that
Pagan Amum is
violation the
resolution,
specifically
Operative
Paragraph 1,
subparagraph 6
(he
said), by
engaging in
inflammatory
rhetoric.
Allegations of
speech
crimes are
getting more
and more
common at the
UN, for
example with
now-gone
International
Criminal Court
prosecutor
Luis Moreno
Ocampo
threatening to
prosecute
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman.
Inner
City Press
asked him
about the oil
police - he
said they are
"not in
Abyei," but
are to protect
against
another Hedlig
- and South
Sudan's
statement that
an Japanese
investor will
fund a
pipeline not
through Sudan.
That's their
choice, said
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman.
He denied the
aerial
bombing, and
the ouster of
NGOs Inner
City Press
has asked Ban
Ki-moon's
spokespeople
about without
answer.
On
the other
hand,
Inner City
Press asked if
the Sudan
Sanctions
experts,
particular the
elusive Brit
Mr. Bryant
that
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman has
named,
ever got
access into
South Sudan to
confirm or
disprove JEM
presence
there with
Gaddafi
weapons.
No,
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman said,
they are still
"keeping a
blind eye on
that." And so
it goes.
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