South
Sudan Explains
Halting Oil
Flow As UN
Prepares Huge
Aid
Appeal
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
July 5 -- When
the South
Sudan
mission's
mandate was
renewed
by the UN
Security
Council on
Thursday it
took less then
ten minutes.
Most of that
was a speech
by South
Sudanese
representative
Francis
Nazario. He
praised UN
envoy Hilde
Johnson and
explained that
his
government had
to halt oil
production to
ensure
justice.
While
the
UNMISS mandate
renewal
resolution was
being
negotiated,
several
Security
Council
members told
Inner City
Press that it
was generally
a "love fest"
for South
Sudan.
One
of
them
questioned how
the UN could
in good
conscience put
out a big
consolidated
humanitarian
appeal for
problems
caused by a
government
choosing to
forego
revenue,
arguably to
see if it
would hurt its
neighbor more
and cause
regime change
there.
Inner
City
Press put this
question to
Nazario
afterward,
about the
coming
consolidated
appeal and if
there was any
thought of
resuming oil
production or
any light at
the end of the
tunnel.
Nazario
said
his country is
doing the best
it can; at his
previous
stakeout,
he confirmed
to Inner City
Press it is
moving to
build a
pipeline
that does not
go through
Sudan,
reportedly
with Toyota.
Inner
City
Press asked
about the
critique of
UNMISS by an
NGO in Juba,
that
the UN should
explain why it
cannot better
protect
civilians in
South
Sudan. Nazario
replied that
his government
would like
UNMISS to have
more powers.
Previously,
Hilde
Johnson has
publicly noted
the mandate
does not --
yet? -- allow
for
anti aircraft
guns. There
are some in
the UN
proposing a
Norwegian
for Norwegian
double shift:
Robert Mood to
South Sudan,
to observe
the border
with the
North, the
Hilde Johnson
to Syria,
to... well,
you know.
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