Amid
Fighting
in Blue Nile
& Bombs in
Kordofan, UN
Stuck in
Routine
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 2 --
On the day
Sudan pushed
fighting into
Blue
Nile State,
while being
accused of
bombing and
using food as
a weapon
in adjacent Southern
Kordofan,
Inner City
Press on
September 1
asked the US
and French
delegations
consulting on
the UN
Security
Council's
agenda for
September if
Kordofan was
on it.
"There's
a
meeting on
Sudan," new US
Ambassador
Jeffrey
DeLaurentis
told
Inner City
Press.
"Will
Kordofan
be dealt
with?" Inner
City Press
asked the
French
charge
d'affaires
Martin Briens.
"We certainly
hope so,"
he said.
Later
the
President of
the Security
Council for
September,
Nawaf Salam of
Lebanon, told
Inner City
Press that the
hope is to
deal with
Kordofan
during the
pre-scheduled
-- that is,
regular and
routine --
meeting
on Sudan and
South Sudan.
That is on
September
8.Salam
confirmed to
Inner City
Press that
during the
bilateral
meetings on
Thursday, the
program of
work was not
changed.
To
some it
appears
that Sudan has
been
downgraded on
the Council's
agenda, with
the the
interest in
Syria and in trying to send
a UN mission
to Libya.
In May, Amb.
Rice, Lyall
Grant, Wittig
& Araud.
Now?
But
even in South
Sudan, the
death rate has
escalated, at
least in
cattle
fights, and
the UN's own
human rights
expert there
Benedict
Sannoh was
beaten by
South Sudan
police while
lying on the
ground. OHCHR
has informed
Inner City
Press:
On
Benedict
Sannoh's
injuries: he
suffered what
his hospital
medical
report
described as
'a blunt
trauma to the
head,' as well
as injuries
to his back
and legs.
However,
fortunately no
bones are
broken, and
it looks like
there will not
be any
permanent
injuries. He
was
released from
the UN
hospital in
Sudan after
five days and
is now
recuperating
outside the
country.
Wrong time to
look
away. Watch
this site.
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