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 منقول تاريخ اليوم صباحا في امريكا "اوباما يقود ضغظا من الامم المتحدة علي السودان "
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Obama leads new UN pressure on Sudan over votes
(AFP) – 1 hour ago
UNITED NATIONS — US President Barack Obama on Friday led an international push to make sure two self-determination votes in Sudan, which could lead to the breakup of Africa's biggest nation, are held on time.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called a high level meeting on Sudan amid fears that a delay could lead to a unilateral declaration of independence by South Sudan and a possible conflict.
Obama spoke with other world leaders about the January 9 referendums in South Sudan and the small region of Abyei, both key oil producers, for which preparations are seriously behind schedule, officials said.
The US president discussed Sudan with Ban on Thursday and said that with the United Nations he would be "focusing the world's attention on the upcoming referenda in Sudan."
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called Sudan a "ticking time bomb, and Ban has called the country one of his "top priorities."
African concern will be highlighted by presence of the presidents and prime ministers of Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia at the meeting along with the foreign minister from Brazil, Britain, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, India, and Norway, among others.
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by a UN court on war crimes charges, will not be at the meeting.
Bashir will be represented by two vice presidents: Ali Osman Taha, who speaks for the Khartoum government, and Salva Kiir who is leader of Southern Sudan.
Diplomats said the aim of Friday's meeting was to send a strong signal to the Khartoum government and South Sudan that the votes must be held on time and be peaceful and credible.
At the UN General Assembly, there was new condemnation of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's claims that most people in the world believe that the US government orchestrated the September 11 attacks in 2001.
EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton called the comments "outrageous and unacceptable."
"It is for this reason that all representatives of the 27 nations of the EU walked out" of the General Assembly, she said.
The United States has already called the comments "abhorrent and delusional." Obama "found the comments to be outrageous and offensive, particularly given how close we are to Ground Zero," a US official said on condition of anonymity.
The Iranian president said there was a theory that "some segments within the US government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy and its grips on the Middle East in order also to save the Zionist regime.
"The majority of the American people as well as other nations and politicians agree with this view," he declared to the astonished chamber.
The United States is still saying, however, that the international dispute with Iran over its nuclear programme can be settled through negotiations.The message was reaffirmed on Friday by Gary Samore, Obama's special envoy on arms control, at a UN meeting on disarmament.
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