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At UN
On South Sudan, Killing the MINURCAT,
Lord's Resistance Army to be Reported On
Byline: Matthew
Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN: News Analysis
UNITED NATIONS,
April 30 -- The final night of April, and of South Africa's presidency
of the
Security Council, stretched past nine p.m. when the Council members
emerged to
vote on a South Sudan (UNMIS)
resolution, and a statement on Eritrea and
Ethiopia. After the vote, Sudan's
Ambassador spoke to the few reporters remaining. "We prevailed over
many
suggestions of the sponsor, the United States," he said. "We killed
the reference to the Sudan mission working together with MINURCAT," the
acronym for the UN's new mission in Chad and the Central African
Republic.
The UNMIS resolution refers in two
places to assisting with, or reporting on, the Uganda peace process. It
"requests the Secretary-General to submit for the Council's
consideration
a report on possible measures UNMIS would take to assist, with the
implementation of a future Final Peace Agreement between the government
of
Uganda and the LRA," the Lord's Resistance Army. Sudan says it can live
with this paragraph, and argues that it is the International Criminal
Court
which is blocking peace in Uganda. The argument's purpose is to say
that the
ICC's indictments in Sudan are a hindrance to peace.
South Africa's Kumalo: after late night
votes, heading to Nevada
Inner City Press asked outgoing
Council president Dumisani Kumalo about the Sudanese statements.
"MINURCAT
involves police, it can only work with UNAMID," he said, referring the
hybrid UN-African Union Mission in Darfur. He
expressed some surprise that the LRA
paragraphs remained in the resolution. "Well, they do negotiate in
Juba," he said.
While Council members waited for Russian
Ambassador Vitaly Churkin to return for final discussions on Western
Sahara, Kumalo joked that his month
has been a success merely by
surviving it. He told Inner City Press that tomorrow he is going hiking
in
Nevada. Click here for
Inner City Press'
past story on the Western Sahara resolution, still pending as of
this writing
at 9:55 p.m..
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News and on Lexis-Nexis.
Click
here for a Reuters
AlertNet piece by this correspondent
about Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army. Click
here
for an earlier Reuters AlertNet piece about the Somali National
Reconciliation Congress, and the UN's $200,000 contribution from an
undefined trust fund. Video
Analysis here
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