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 Re: على ذمة -الغارديان-ضربات جوية تستهدف مطارات عسكرية سودانية. (Re: محمود الدقم)
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Blair wants no-fly zone enforced over Darfur
Julian Borger
Wednesday March 28, 2007
The Guardian
Tony Blair is pushing the United Nations to declare a no-fly zone over Darfur, enforced if necessary by the bombing of Sudanese military airfields used for raids on the province, the Guardian has learned.
The controversial initiative comes as a classified report by a UN panel of experts alleges Sudan has violated UN resolutions by moving arms into Darfur, conducting overflights and disguising its military planes as UN humanitarian aircraft.
Mr Blair has been pushing for much tougher international action against Sudan since President Omar Hassan al-Bashir reneged earlier this month on last November's agreement to allow UN peacekeepers into Darfur to protect civilians.
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More than 200,000 people have been killed in the course of a counter-insurgency by government forces and allied Janjaweed militia, and more than 2 million have been forced to flee their homes. Humanitarian supplies to millions of refugees are tenuous and threatened by continuing violence on the Sudan-Chad border.
Talks are under way at the UN security council over a package of sanctions being pushed by Britain and the US, which includes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Sudanese leaders implicated in the Darfur ethnic cleansing.
Speaking in Berlin on Sunday, Mr Blair described the situation in Darfur as "intolerable" and said: "We need to consider a no-fly zone to prevent the use of Sudanese air power against refugees and displaced people."
According to Downing Street, he is pushing for a no-fly zone to be passed at the same time as the new sanctions package, in the form of a "chapter 7" security council resolution, allowing the use of force. "There could be an agreement in the security council that there could be a no-fly zone. If the Sudanese government broke that agreement there would have to be consequences," said a source.
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محمود الدقم
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