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 حكومة الخرطوم توافق على دخول منظمات الاغاثة الدولية بجبال النوبة
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UNITED NATIONS — Sudan has agreed to let UN relief agencies into its troubled South Kordofan state where government troops are battling rebels, UN officials said Friday.
Western nations called the Khartoum government's gesture insufficient and raised new fears of human rights abuses in the state where a UN report this week said there may have been war crimes.
Tens of thousands of people in South Kordofan have fled their homes since June after the government assault started, aid groups say.
A four-day assessment of food and relief supplies in South Kordofan will start on Saturday in the main city of Kadugli, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told AFP.
The Sudanese government's humanitarian aid commissioner will lead the mission which would include several UN agencies, Haq added. "The mission hopes to carry out assessments in several locations," he said.
Sudan's UN ambassador, Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman, said six UN agencies would be involved, including the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the World Food Program, World Health Organization and the UN Children's Fund UNICEF.
Government forces in South Kordofan have been fighting rebels in Kordofan who are close to rival South Sudan, which broke away from the north in July. Many people who sided with South Sudan during a two decade civil war up to 2005 live in Kordofan. The state has much of Sudan's oil reserves.
The Sudanese ambassador said there are no military attacks in South Kordofan and again rejected allegations made in a report released this week by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The UN report detailed "extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and illegal detention, enforced disappearances and attacks against civilians" in South Kordofan in June.
It also described the aerial bombardment of civilian areas in Kadugli.
The UN said the allegations could amount to crimes against humanity or war crimes. The Sudan government labeled the report as biased.
Western nations on the Security Council said Sudan's move to let in the relief agencies was insufficient.
"Sudan is not giving in any way to pressure from the international community" on Kordofan, said one Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"Khartoum is still banning free access to humanitarian aid. Khartoum is not allowing an independent inquiry into the accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity made against its troops," the diplomat added calling the measure "a smokescreen."
About 5,000 UN peacekeeping troops will have to leave the state because the Khartoum government has demanded an end to the UN mission in Sudan, the diplomat added.
Russia and China have blocked US attempts to get the UN Security Council to condemn the Sudanese bombing and other military activities, diplomats said.
Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said recently that Sudanese forces had threatened to fire on UN flights over Kordofan. She said on Tuesday there was an "increasingly dire" situation in the state and called for genuine humanitarian access.
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