UN's
Ging Tells ICP
No Access to
S. Kordofan,
Sudan Blames
on Rebels
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 8 --
The day before
the Sudan and
South Sudan
consultations
of the UN
Security
Council, the
UN's deputy
humanitarian
chief John
Ging stood in
front of the
Council. Inner
City Press
asked him
about aid
access into
Southern
Kordofan.
"The
problem is we
don't have
access, and
what are we
going to do
about
that," Ging
answered. He
and not
Valerie Amos
will brief the
Council on the
failed
Tripartite
Agreement.
Ging
continued, "I
hope this
generates the
realization
that despite
everyone's
best efforts
for so long,
without finger
pointing we
have
no access. And
as a result of
that, there
are people
dying,
suffering
needlessly,
and fleeing.
What's our
answer to
this?"
So
far, the UN
and Security
Council have
no answers.
Later on
January 7,
Inner City
Press asked
Sudan's
Permanent
Representative
to the UN
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman about
Kordofan. He
blamed the
lack of aid
on the rebels,
who he said
have stepped
out their
attacks on
Kadugli
and elsewhere.
Inner
City Press
asked
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman about
the talks
between
Presidents
Omar al Bashir
and Salva Kiir
in Addis
Ababa. He said
that
"protocols"
were agreed
to, such as
ensuring the
the SPLM
and SPLM-North
truly
disengage.
What
will happen on
Abyei is not
at all clear,
and for that
reason the
biweekly
Security
Council
sessions on
Sudan and
South Sudan
have
lower and
lower key,
more and more
newsless.
Inner
City Press
suggested that
to Ging, that
is there is no
output or
"product"
from the
January 8
consultations,
there will be
no Council
message on
the
humanitarian
issues.
"We
see a positive
dynamic," Ging
replied, "but
at the same
time we have
to look at the
plight of the
people. That's
our
rhetorical
question."
Rhetorical
indeed. Watch
this site.
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