As S.
Sudan Assures
Inner City
Press No
Support to
JEM, UNSC
Dipomat Tells
Press August 2
"Won't Be Met"
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
July 26 --
South Sudan's
ambassador
Francis
Nazario on
Thursday
detailed to
the Press his
government's
offer to
Sudan, a
week before
the stated
deadline for
an agreement.
Inner City
Press
read him
Khartoum's
rejection of
the offer, and
asked that
South
Sudan would do
if no deal was
reached by
August 2. We
believe they
should accept
it, Nazario
said.
Sudan
says that
security
issues come
first, that it
is not the
right time
to talk about
oil even if
Juba offered a
$40 a barrel
transfer fee.
That is
unlikely:
South Sudan
raised its
offer from $1
upt o $9.10 on
one pipeline,
$7.26 on the
other.
South
Sudan proposes
that in Abyei
the Dinka but
not Miseriya
vote, and
that the
latter enter
only unarmed.
This seems
unlike to be
accepted.
Thabo
Mbeki was
slated to
brief the
Security
Council on
July 26 but
did
not. "He is
busy with the
parties," one
of his
supporters
on the Council
told Inner
City Press.
Another said,
he doesn't
have
to answer to
the Council,
and who wants
to be
associated
with
failure?
Inner
City Press
asked Nazario
about Sudan's
charges that
South Sudan
supports the
SPLM-North and
gives aid,
including
medical aid
(which
might be
entirely
legal) to the
JEM rebels.
Nazario denied
both. He
had not
mentioned the
six bombs
confirmed by
the UN, but
did when
asked by Inner
City Press.
It
is a chess
game, with the
approach of
the deadline
on August 2 --
and
even more so
afterward.
A very well
placed
Permanent
Representative
on the
Security
Council flatly
told Inner
City Press on
Thursday that
the August 2
deadline
"won't be
met."
Sudan
has problems
not only on
the border but
in the
capital. At
Thursday's
UN noon
briefing Inner
City Press
asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesman
Eduardo Del
Buey if Ban or
Haile
Menkerios
had raised to
Sudan the
issue of
detention of
protesters,
now
including
Girifna's
Rudway Daud.
No, appears to
be the answer.
Also
in terms of
answers, at
least as of
1:10 pm,
Sudan's
Ambassador or
Mission had
not come to
reply. Watch
this site.
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