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To: Edward M. Zettlemoyer who wrote (439)	9/6/1999 4:33:00 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Respond to of 1713

Ed, I think that everyone wants to see the kind of peace you describe- except that the NIF Military Junta sees that peace in Arabic/Islamic societal terms while the Africans see that peace in a western-style democratic approach- and these two approaches are absolutely irreconciliable....(Or as one pro-Government [but now waivering] leader of one African Tribal Group noted today; "What good is peace from the Government of Sudan if it only brings us war and famine?") In any case I see that the NIF Junta finally figured out the significance of President Clinton's actions re the Sudan- and rejected appointment of a Special Envoy. Well, the Special Envoy is coming whether the NIF Government likes it or not. Now current affairs in North Korea and East Timor will delay addressing the Sudanese situation- but a resolution to the current impasse is coming. Follow the approach of the US Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke in both Bosnia and Kosovo and you'll know what to expect from Special Envoy Johnston here and its rough timing....hopefully military action will not be necessary in order to bring about a just peace. if so, however economic resources such as the Bentiu Oilfields and related pipeline could potentially be on the target list IMO....deny the Junta its lifeblood.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ News Article by REUTERS on September 05, 1999 at 10:02:22: Sudan Rejects Appointment of U.S. Envoy KHARTOUM, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Sudan has rejected Washington's appointment of a special envoy to Khartoum, calling it unacceptable, state radio reported on Sunday. The United States said 10 days ago it had appointed former Florida congressman Harry Johnston as its special envoy to Sudan with a brief to highlight what it called its appalling human rights situation and its humanitarian needs, and to promote an existing peace process. "The way the envoy was appointed was not proper. It did not recognise the legitimacy of the country. It is nuacceptable," state Radio Omdurman quoted Culture and Information Minister Ghazi Salahuddin as saying in Khartoum's first reaction. The minister said all three mandates given to the envoy had been adequately dealt with by Khartoum, and wondered what Johnston was really assigned to do. The peace process, Salahuddin said, was in the hands of the regional Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), adding the United States was involved as a member of the IGAD Partners Forum. Representatives of Sudan's Islamist government and an opposition alliance are due to meet in Cairo this month to prepare for a national dialogue conference to end the civil war which has claimed more than 1.5 million lives through fighting and war-induced famine and disease. Salahuddin said Sudan and the United Nations were taking care of the humanitarian aid Operation Lifeline. "The Sudanese government and the United Nations are cooperating very well in this programme." In the human rights field, he said, Khartoum and the United Nations were in direct contact through the Human Rights High Commission in Geneva. He added the commission had appointed a special rapporteur for human rights in Sudan. "What then does the U.S. administration want from Sudan, unless, of course, the envoy intends to distort those efforts?" he asked. The United States has condemned Sudan for what it describes as its human rights abuses, its effort to destabilise its neighbours, its disruption of the delivery of relief aid to starving people in the south and its alleged support for terrorism. Sudan has rejected all the charges, insisting it is targeted by the United States owing to its Islamic orientation. A Khartoum-based Kenyan diplomat said on Sunday the Kenyan president's special envoy, Daniel Mboya, arrived in Khartoum on Saturday for talks aimed at setting a date for a new round of peace talks between the Islamist government and southern rebels. The last round of IGAD-sponsored talks was held in Nairobi. Sudan's civil war broadly pits the Moslem and mainly Arab north against the largely Christian and animist south, where the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army is fighting for more religious and political freedom.