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 Re: إعلان الحظر الجوي في دارفور (Re: ابوهريرة زين العابدين)
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, June 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush warned Thursday that Washington would take its own line of action if the United Nations failed to take sufficient action on Darfur, western Sudan.
Bush made the remarks after meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair Thursday morning, before the leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations opened their first working session in the German Baltic resort of Heiligendamm.
"We did discuss Darfur. I'm frustrated, but the international organizations can't move quickly enough," Bush said. "I will be stressing, along with Tony (Blair), the need for nations to take action."
"If the UN won't act, we need to take action ourselves, and I laid out a series of sanctions that I think hopefully will affect (Sudanese President Omar) al-Bashir's behavior. But enough is enough in Darfur," he added.
Bush's latest remarks on Darfur came just one day after Sudan's Foreign Minister Lam Akol said that the U.S. sanctions on Sudan would harm his country's peace process as well as the people in Darfur.
"The imposition of sanctions is definitely going to harm the peace process as well as the Darfur people," Akol said at a video conference broadcast from Khartoum at Washington's National Press Club.
Bush tightened sanctions on Sudan last month and pushed for a new, tougher UN Security Council resolution to impose sanctions on the northern African country over the violence in the Darfur region.
"The first casualty of these sanctions, coming at the time that they did, is the peace process," Akol said. He added that the sanctions are scuttling efforts "that are meant to bring about the peaceful resolution of the problem in Darfur."
"Definitely everybody is perplexed and surprised as to why such a decision would come at this particular time when we are about to finalize what was asked of all of us to do," Akol said.
The United States imposed fresh sanctions on Sudan last May in response to the violence in Darfur. Sudan has rejected the U.S. sanctions.
Khartoum is under mounting pressure to approve the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Darfur. It has accepted the first two phases of a UN peacekeeping plan for Darfur, but has stalled on the third phase to create a much larger UN-AU hybrid force.
Thousands of civilians in Darfur have been killed or displaced following tribal clashes and an anti-government rebellion in February 2003.
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ابوهريرة زين العابدين
Elbagir Osman
فيس بوك
تويتر
انستقرام
يوتيوب
بنتيريست