As
Sudan Blocks
UN Sanctions
Expert
Schbley,
Bryden Echo,
Juba Parallel
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 6,
updated with letter --
Sudan's
relations with
the UN and
United
States do not
appear to be
improving. The
new Expert on
Sudan
Sanctions
appointed last
month by UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon,
Ghassan
Schbley of the
United States,
was recently
"interrogated"
and denied
entry into
Sudan, sources
exclusively
tell Inner
City
Press.
Schbley
previously
worked on the
UN's Somalia
and Eritrea
sanctions,
from
which after
complaints he
and
coordinator
Matt Bryden
were removed.
Inner City
Press wrote
about this
back in August
2012, here.
The
sources tell
Inner City
Press that
this history
is one of the
reasons
Schbley was
denied access
by Sudan. They
question why
Ban Ki-moon
thought the
shift would
work smoothly.
But others
wonder, why
was Schbley
given a visa
if in fact he
would be
blocked?
Update:
Inner City
Press has
obtained, and
has put
on its beta
Google+ page,
here, Sudan's
"incident
report."
Second
Update:
Morocco's
Permanent
Representative
Loulichki, the
Security
Council
president for
December, told
Inner City
Press his
mandate now is
to "demarche"
Sudan's
Permanent
Representative
about the case
-- and listen
to further
explanation.
Other comments
have been
sought. Watch
this site.
Khartoum has
other
complaints
about the
implementation
of Sudan
sanctions,
saying when
the UN expert
tried to check
if the Justice
and Equality
Movement
carried
Gaddafi
weapons into
South Sudan,
they weren't
let in but
hardly
complained.
Meanwhile,
the
Thursday
morning
Security
Council
session on
Sudan and
South
Sudan, more
specificaly
Abyei, came to
very little.
The African
Union
will be
briefed by
Thabo Mbeki's
High Level
Implementation
Panel on
December 14,
prior to
another UN
Security
Council
session on
December 18.
The six week
"deadline"
on Abyei has
come and gone.
South
Sudan, too,
has it
problems with
the UN, for
having thrown
out the
UN's human
rights expert.
This is
explained to
Inner City
Press by
other sources
as being based
on an
"attempted
coup" in
South Sudan,
and the coming
up of the name
of the UN
expert. Two
were
to be thrown
out, which was
reduced to
one. But it is
unlikely to be
reversed.
And
what is Hilde
Johnson doing?
What will the
Council's
Sudan
Sanctions
committee do
about the
blockage of
Ghassan
Schbley?
Watch this
site.
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