As
Sudan
Flies Militia
to Blue Nile
from Darfur,
Ladsous to
Brief,
UNanswered
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 25 --
Amid reports
that Sudan is
flying
janjawiid
militia from
Darfur, where
the UN has a
billion dollar
peacekeeping
mission, to
Blue Nile
State where
the UN closed
down its Sudan
mission on
July 9, it was
said that
Darfur mission
chief Ibrahim
Gambari would
brief the
Security
Council on
October 25.
The Nigerian
presidency of
the Council
said it would
be Gambari, as
did at least
one European
Council
member.
But
at the UN's
October 25
noon briefing
it was
announced that
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operation
chief Herve
Ladsous would
do the
briefing.
Ladous is the
fourth
Frenchman in a
row to head
DPKO. Unlike
his
predecessor
Alain Le Roy,
he has not
come to the
Security
Council
stakeout to
answer
questions.
In
fact, in his
single press
conference to
date, he
declined to
explain his
role as
chief of staff
to former
French foreign
affairs
minister
Michele
Aliot-Marie in
her flying on
private planes
of cronies of
Tunisian
dictator Ben
Ali, nor his
statements on
Haiti and
Rwanda.
(c)
UN Photo
Ban and
Ladsous,
answers on
Darfur not
shown
On
October 24,
Inner City
Press asked
Ban Ki-moon's
spokesman a
question about
Darfur:
Inner
City
Press; on
Sudan. The
SPLM-North is
saying that
Janjaweed
fighters are
being flown by
the Government
of Sudan from
Darfur,
specifically
from Nyala and
Aljenina, into
Blue Nile
State to
actually fight
there. And so
I wondered, I
understand
that United
Nations
Mission in the
Sudan (UNMIS)
is no longer
on the ground
or
has some
logistical
[liquidation
mission], but
since these
will be
flights from
Darfur, where
the UN does
have a big
peacekeeping
mission, can
the UN verify
this? is
ittrue, is it
not true? If
it
were
happening,
would it be
problematic
and what would
the UN say or
do about it?
Spokesperson:
Let me ask my
peacekeeping
colleagues,
okay?
More
than 24 hour
later, there
was been no
answer.
Ladsous should
be expected to
answer. Will
he? Watch this
site.
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