From BBC News: Opposition to Darfur Resolution
| A draft Security Council resolution to authorise deploying a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region has run into opposition. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for it to be approved quickly, but key nations object to a sanctions threat. Meanwhile, talks in Libya on the four-year conflict have made progress towards setting up future peace talks. A small AU force has failed to halt the violence, which the UN says has led to some 200,000 deaths and 2m displaced. Sudan's UN ambassador Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad said the draft UN resolution should be more Sudan-friendly and drop "irrelevant and alien issues" like the threat of sanctions. Ambassador Dumisani Kumalo of South Africa, a member of the Security Council, warned that any talk of sanctions in the draft was "totally unacceptable". |
Disgrace.
Once again, the good old new South Africa rides in like a knight in shining armour to rescue another tyranny, terrorist movemetn or genocidal regime.
Posted by: Gary | July 17, 2007 at 16:05
The question then, is South Africa inadvertantly complicit in the genocide?
Why are we siding against blacks in Darfur when we have a president who always plays the race card?
Posted by: Steve | July 17, 2007 at 20:48