At
UN,
Statement on
Sudan US
Wanted by 4 pm
"Extended" to
Tuesday, Obama
Policy
Unclear?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
March 26 --
Amid military
build-ups on
the Sudan -
South
Sudan border
as the two
country's
leaders
prepare for a
summit in
Juba, the US
Mission to the
UN midday on
Monday told
other Security
Council
members they
would draft
and circulate
a Council
Press
Statement
directed at
both sides. If
no one
objected
before 4 pm,
the
Press
Statement
would be read
out and become
official.
But
Monday
afternoon
Inner City
Press heard
from several
Council
members -- not
from the US,
despite a
formal
question being
asked -- that
silence
was broken on
the statement,
and an
extension
requested
until
Tuesday.
Perhaps the
US, after it
said time was
of the
essence,
didn't want to
go public with
the delay?
Already,
some say,
after the
closed door
briefing of
the Council by
Thabo Mbeki,
the
Council will
only pass
statements
that equally
blame Sudan
and South
Sudan, which
is not the
position of
most US-based
Sudan
activists or,
one thought,
the Obama
administration.
But
there was
Obama's envoy
to Darfur Dane
Smith, telling
the Justice
&
Equality
Movement not
to try to
regime change.
So according
to Obama,
regime change
in Libya good,
Syria would be
good, but not
in Sudan,
whose
President and
Defense
Minister have
been indicted
for genocide
and war crimes
by the
International
Criminal
Court?
Someone
should
explain this,
but we have no
answer from
the US Mission
to the UN.
Watch this
site.
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