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Sudan leader backs Darfur plan but concerns remain
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 26 - 12 - 2006


Sudanese President Omar
Hassan al-Bashir has told the United Nations he endorses a plan
for a joint African Union-U.N. peacekeeping force to help quell
violence and protect civilians in Darfur, according to Reuters.
But in a Dec. 23 letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan made public on Tuesday, Bashir also said the plan should
be carried out through a special panel on which Khartoum has a
seat, a move diplomats said would effectively give Sudan veto
power over all aspects of its implementation.
Diplomats who have seen the letter, distributed to members
of the 15-nation U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, said that
while Bashir's message contained positive elements, it was not
clear whether it represented a real step forward in putting the
plan into effect.
To help sort out the situation, the council is expected to
invite Annan to brief it on the letter later this week, U.N.
officials said.
The question of whether Bashir was now standing aside and
eliminating obstacles to the plan, or clinging to ambiguities
in an effort to further stall its implementation, was crucial
as Annan is preparing to leave office this Sunday to make way
for new Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of South Korea.
Bashir was replying to a letter from Annan delivered last
week in which the secretary-general tried to pin down the
Sudanese leader by asking him to give his formal consent for
what Annan has been describing as a hybrid AU-U.N. force of at
least 22,600 troops and police.
Bashir has flatly opposed a purely U.N. force, calling it a
move to recolonize his vast East African nation. He has made a
series of contradictory statements on a hybrid force.


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