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 Re: أمريكا وحلف شمال الأطلسى يتوليان مهمة دارفور (Re: Dr Mahdi Mohammed Kheir)
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Darfur attacks overwhelm peace force, UN reports
By Warren Hoge The New York Times
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2006
UNITED NATIONS, New York The UN special envoy to Sudan says that violence is rising in Darfur and that lack of progress in the south is jeopardizing a peace agreement that ended a separate conflict there.
The official, Jan Pronk, told the Security Council on Tuesday that killings, rapes and armed attacks on Darfur villagers were committed by armed gangs secure in the knowledge that no one would stop or punish them.
"In South Darfur, militia continue to cleanse village after village," he said. "The government has not disarmed them. On the contrary, African Union commanders on the ground openly speak about continued support to militia by forces allied to the government."
In what the United Nations calls the greatest humanitarian crisis and the Bush administration has labeled genocide, more than 200,000 people in Darfur have been killed and up to two million black villagers driven from their homes by Arab militias.
Pronk called on the international community to augment and assist the 7,000 African Union troops in Sudan now and not wait until the force is reorganized later this year as a UN force.
The African Union agreed this month to turn its peacekeeping mission in Darfur over to the United Nations in the autumn.
Sudan has said it will not accept UN troops until a Darfur peace agreement is struck in talks now going on in Abuja, the Nigerian capital.
In the meantime, Pronk said, the African Union force needs help with items like helicopters and technology that only wealthier countries can supply.
"You need technology to see where military groups are assembling themselves in order to attack villages," he said.
Pronk said that people in Sudan were confused about the United Nations and were subjected to propaganda campaigns claiming that the organization would challenge the country's sovereignty.
Pronk urged the Security Council not to borrow troops for Darfur from the existing peacekeeping mission in southern Sudan, where a peace agreement 14 months ago ended 20 years of civil war.
"Cannibalization of any forces from southern Sudan would be tantamount to sending the watchman home in the afternoon," he said.
UNITED NATIONS, New York The UN special envoy to Sudan says that violence
Quote: UNSC authorises Darfur peacekeeping plan
25 March 2006 13:14
The United Nations Security Council has authorised preparations for the deployment of a peacekeeping mission in the Darfur region of Sudan.
The resolution, which was adopted unanimously, asks the Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to prepare a range of options for a UN operation in Darfur.
UN officials say there is an urgent need to send a peacekeeping force to the region, where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in continuing violence.
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The African Union had been planning to keep its 7,000 peacekeepers in Darfur until September and then hand the operation over to the UN.
However the proposed handover has been opposed by the Sudanese government, which blames rebels for the violence.The head of UN peacekeeping, Jean-Marie Guehenno said that the UN would need Sudan's co-operation. |
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