يوميات الثورة السودانية – الجزء الثانى

Quote: Yesterday, June 5, 2013, the Secretary General of the SPLM-N, Yasir Arman, talked with Baroness Valerie Amos, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, about the humanitarian situation in Sudan and the intended vaccination campaign for the children in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile. The Secretary General of the SPLM-N reaffirmed the position of the SPLM-N on the following: 1) The SPLM-N is fully committed to carry out the vaccination campaign in its areas of control and to fully cooperate with the UN agencies for this campaign to achieve its objectives. 2) In order for the campaign to succeed and given the situation of war, it needs two requirements. a. For the Sudan government and the SPLM-N to declare a humanitarian cessation of hostilities for a week or for the time that is required by the campaign, including mobilizing the children, who are intended to be vaccinated, from the caves of the mountains and the remote areas where their families are protecting them from the aerial and ground bombardment of the National Congress armed forces. The SPLM-N is ready any time to declare the humanitarian cessation of hostilities for the period required by the UN organization. b. Since the SPLM-N and the Sudan government have no humanitarian or political agreement and the Sudan government is denying access into the areas controlled by the SPLM-N, the SPLM-N is ready to discuss the modalities of bringing the logistics of the campaign from a location that is agreed to by the two parties. It is an open secret that HAC, the humanitarian relief wing of the Sudan government is an agency controlled by Sudan security, and it cannot possibly have anything to do with the areas under the control of the SPLM-N. In addition, the families of the children will not trust any vaccination coming through the Khartoum government, which is killing their children by an aerial bombardment against the civilian population. 3) The SPLM-N is ready for a full humanitarian cessation of hostilities whenever the Khartoum government is ready. The civilian populations should not be punished by the lack of the common political agenda between the two parties. 4) The SPLM-N had a political agreement on June 28, 2011 with Khartoum and it was denounced by General Bashir. We had two humanitarian agreements with the tripartite group on February 18 and August 4, 2012 and both did not work as a result of lack of will from the Khartoum side. 5) The SPLM-N humanitarian team has been in contact with the UN teams in the region and we are ready to continue the engagement to resolve all technical issues in order for the vaccination campaign to start. Office of the Secretary General, SPLM-N June, 6, 2013