As
Susan Rice
Says Sudan
Blocks
Sanctions
Com'te
MemberS, It's
1,
Schbley
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 8 --
After the UN
Security
Council's
closed door
session
Tuesday about
Sudan and
South Sudan,
US Ambassador
Susan Rice
came to the
stakeout,
concluding
that "we had a
discussion
subsequent to
the one I've
described
about the
Council's
concern
about the
government of
Khartoum's
repeated
blocking even
of members
of the Panel
of Experts."
Inner
City Press has
previously
covered this
blocking
-- it is of
one of
the experts,
Ghassan
Schbley of the
United States,
who Sudan has
blocked. Sudan
says that
while on the
Sanctions
group for
Somalia and
Eritrea,
Schbley acted
against
Sudan's
interests and
is now
"blacklisted."
But
many Council
members
wondered why
Sudan then
granted
Schbley a
visa,
only to not
let him in.
What kind of
blacklist is
this?
Then
again, there
must be other
experts. Even
Congo somehow
struggles on,
even with
Steve Hege off
that Group of
Experts. When
Morocco's
Permanent
Representative
Loulichki was
president of
the Council,
he
"demarched"
Sudan,
apparently
without
effect.
Now,
the chair of
the Sudan
Sanctions
Committee has
passed from
Colombia,
which left the
Council on
January 1, to
new member
Argentina.
Might
they suggest
finding
another
expert? Watch
this site.
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