At
UN, South
Sudan Says
Won't Leave
Heglig Until
Monitors, SC
All Syria
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
April 12,
updated with video -- South Sudan will only
leave Heglig
in Sudan
"once a
mechanism is
in place and a
neutral force
is deployed in
the area,"
South Sudanese
Deputy
Permanent
Representative
Agnes
Oswaha told
Inner City
Press on
Thursday. Video
here, from
Minute
14:27.
Click
here
for "Making of
the Stakeout"
video on Inner
City Press's
YouTube
channel.
The
UN Security
Council,
two hours
earlier, had
adopted a
Presidential
Statement
calling on
South Sudan to
withdraw from
Heglig.
After Agnes
Oswaha's
answers, a
Western
Council
diplomat told
Inner City
Press that
"grabbing
Heglig is not
the right way
to improve
South Sudan's
negotiating
position."
But
Agnes
Oswaha's told
Inner City
Press that
"Heglig is a
disputed
area... Sudan
has been
benefiting
from Heglig
resources."
Heglig
is Sudan's
major
remaining oil
field. If it
does not
produce, at
least for
Khartoum, for
an extended
period of
time, the
consequences
will be
substantial.
Earlier on
Thursday
Sudan's
Permanent
Representative
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman vowed to
Inner City
Press that if
South
Sudan does not
withdraw they
will be
"thrown out,"
and
fast.
But
even after
South Sudan's
statement, the
Security
Council
remained
focused on
Syria -- even
as a coup
d'etat was
reported in
Guinea-Bissau.
A
non-Western
diplomat
leaving the
Council told
Inner City
Press, "Now
you see this
is useless,"
pointing back
at the
Security
Council.
Another, told
of the Guinea
Bissau coup,
quipped
"congratulations!"
Still another
said, "We need
another
Security
Council."
One
Council member
with an eye on
Bissau, Togo,
appeared at
the Council at
6:15 pm. But
they left at
6:20, telling
Inner City
Press, "We
have to know
more." Some
call it coup
fatigue.
Meanwhile
on the
Syria draft
resolution,
even after
hours,
negotiations
remained on
the initial
Operative
Paragraphs,
with a fight
predicted over
"freedom of
movement."
This comes
just after the
re-release
of Ban
Ki-moon's
report on
Western
Sahara, where
the UN mission
clearly does
not have
freedom of
movement. A
European
diplomat
pointed out
that more
people are
being killed
in Syria. So
that's the
standard?
Watch this
site.
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