UNITED
NATIONS, May 1
-- After the
war in
Southern
Kordofan was
expanded to
Umm Rawaba in
North
Kordofan,
Sudan's
Permanent
Representative
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman told
Inner City
Press he had
written to
the UN
Security
Council asking
them to
condemn the
attack.
On
Wednesday
Inner City
Press asked US
Ambassador
Susan Rice
about it.
She stopped
and said, with
some sarcasm,
"Like we've
had so many
statements
recently." The
Council had
been preparing
a
Presidential
Statement when
Sudan
and South
Sudan reached
the
Matrix of
Implementation
of their
agreements.
Russia
proposed a
minimalist
press
statement
congratulating
the parties;
the
US position
was that more
of the
narrative and
outstanding
issues
should be
included. And
so, as often
happens on
Syria as well,
no
statement
at all.
And this time?
On
April 29,
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman raised
the attack on
Umm Rawaba
in North
Kordofan to
the Council,
and asked for
sanctions on
the
rebels.
Afterward
Inner City
Press asked UK
Permanent
Representative
Mark Lyall
Grant what he
thought. He
said the UK
would not in
principle
oppose
sanctions on
some rebels,
but the
relative
balance
with what the
government has
been doing
would have to
be taken into
account.
Meanwhile
at
Wednesday's UN
noon briefing
Inner City
Press asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesperson
Martin Nesirky
if the UNMISS
mission in
South Sudan
agreed with
the government
in Juba that
the
recent deadly
attack on UN
peacekeepers
was by the
David Yau Yau
rebels.
Inner City
Press also
asked if
Ban's envoy
Hilde Johnson
had spoken
with the
government
about their
amnesty offer
to rebels,
including the
Yau Yau
rebels.
One
might have
thought the UN
would have
said,
including
publicly, that
amnesty could
NOT cover the
killing of
peacekeepers.
But there was
no
immediate
answer. Watch
this site.
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