For
Sudan at UN, 3
Strikes, of
Mbeki,
Menkerios and
Abyei, Ladsous
Stonewall
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 13 --
The place of
Sudan on the
UN Security
Council's
agenda is
sometimes
described as
too prominent.
But when the
chips are
down, Sudan
can disappear.
Weeks after a
failure to
agree on the
disputed area
of Abyei, UN
official Haile
Menkerios has
yet to brief
the Security
Council.
A
video briefing
by Thabo Mbeki
which has been
scheduled for
November 12
was
unceremoniously
canceled. And
an adoption of
a resolution
on Abyei,
which had been
scheduled for
November 13,
is no longer
on the agenda.
On
this last
Inner City
Press can
report that
Sudan's
delegation
entered the
Council on
Monday during
the Timor
Leste session.
They delivered
a letter about
Abyei, Inner
City Press
learned
exclusively
covering a
Monday evening
"experts"
consultation
on the Abyei
mission
UNISFA.
Back
during the
General Debate
in September,
Inner City
Press asked
chief UN
Peacekeeper
Herve Ladsous
"what is the
UN's role in
Abyei?"
Ladsous
refused to
offer any
answer then
-- or
since.
So
the
UN official
ostensibly in
New York won't
answer, the
UN's traveling
envoy Haile
Menkerios
hasn't briefed
the UN in
weeks -- after
the Advisory
Committee on
Administrative
and Budgetary
Questions
recommended
that he move
to the region
-- and Thabo
Mbeki got
canceled, or
"re-scheduled."
So it is with
Sudan and the
UN, at least
for now. Watch
this site.
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