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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47939)3/4/2005 8:52:43 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called a Security Council meeting for Monday on the security breakdown in western Sudanese region of Darfur, spokesman Fred Eckhard said Friday.

The Darfur crisis was not on the March Security Council agenda list handed out this week by the UN ambassador of Brazil, which currently holds the group's rotating presidency.

"I think all would agree that not enough is being done to bring the security situation in Sudan under control," Eckhard told reporters.

"I think the Council members share that assessment with the Secretary-General. We all know the kinds of difficult issues that the Council is grappling with as they debate approving the Secretary-General's proposal for a peacekeeping mission.

"And I think he wants to discuss with them what practical options are available to them to act more decisively to deal with the continuing killing and rape that's going on in Sudan, particularly in Darfur," Eckhart concluded.

Some 70,000 people have died after two years of fighting in the western region of Darfur, where the government and its proxy militias have brutally put down a rebellion launched in February 2003. The crisis has resulted in some 1.6 million people displaced or as refugees, according to UN figures.

The Security Council has discussed over several weeks a draft resolution presented by Washington, but with little hope of overcoming divisions in the next days. The resolution is a broadly worded statement that encompasses all of Sudan's current problems.
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