At
UN
on Sudan, No
Access to Blue
Nile or S.
Kordofan, No
SOFA for
Abyei, New
Peacekeeping
Chief Ladsous
MIA
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 9 --
Amid a surge
in aerial
bombing in
Sudan, the
UN Security
Council met
behind closed
doors Thursday
about Abyei
and
Blue Nile
State,
Southern
Kordofan and
South Sudan.
The meeting
had
no outcome.
The
acting chief
of
the Department
of
Peacekeeping
Operations
(DPKO) Edmund
Mulet told
the Press he
had an
appointment.
As Inner City
Press asked of
a
Status of
Forces
Agreement has
been reached
for the UNISFA
mission in
Abyei where
peacekeepers
died while
unable to be
evacuated by
helicopter
from Wau in
South Sudan,
Mulet said not
yet, and left.
On
Friday Inner
City Press
asked the UN's
Deputy
Spokesman
Eduardo del
Buey when the
UN plans to
put in place a
Status of
Forces
Agrement, and
how it
deploys
peacekeepers
without a plan
to medevac
them.
Del Buey said
to "ask DPKO"
-- but how?
Nor has there
been any
answer on
when the new
French head of
DPKO Herve
Ladsous, named
on September
2,
will begin.
In Khartoum in
May, Rice
looks out,
Araud down,
Ladous not
shown
Later
on Friday
after Council
president
Nawaf Salam
read a press
statement on
9/11,
Inner City
Press asked
him about the
previous
afternoon's
Sudan
consultations,
reminding him
that at his
beginning of
presidency
briefing he'd
committed to
come out and
speak after
the Sudan
session.
Salam
nodded and
said there had
been three
consultations.
Of these,
asked about
possible
outcomes by
Inner City
Press, Salam
predicted a
follow up
and outcome
only on
changing the
Abyei
mission's
mandate,
reportedly
to include
some border
review.
Apparently
there are
other
priorities
in the
Security
Council at
present.
Meanwhile
fallout
continues from
the currency
war between
Khartoum and
South Sudan.
Khartoum set a
deadline to
convert to or
exchange into
its new
currency; this
led to crowds
outside the
Central Bank
in Khartoum
pleading for
an extension
that was not
granted. And
so it goes.
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