By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
April 27 -- As
the UN
Security
Council met
Friday morning
to
negotiate
around a draft
resolution
about Sudan
and South
Sudan
circulated the
day before by
US Ambassador
Susan Rice, a
Sudanese
diplomat came
down to the
Council to
hand Council
members a list
of
amendments
proposed by
Sudan's
Ambassador
Daffa-Alla
Elhag Ali
Osman.
Inner
City Press obtained the
letter, and
put it online
here.
The
letter begins:
Excellency,
With
reference to
the draft
Resolution
circulated by
the United
States Mission
to the United
Nations,
yesterday, on
Sudan and
South
Sudan, I would
highly
appreciate if
you would
kindly
consider the
following
initial
observations
of the
Government of
Sudan when
discussing the
draft
resolution.
Then
follow the
proposed
changes, three
specific and
one general.
The general
one
asks for time:
"The
time
frames and
bench marks
addressed to
both parties
are very short
and not
practical;
therefore
there is a
need to extend
those time
frames."
Two
of the three
specific
proposed
changes would
change
"decided" to
"calls
on" --
Regarding
operative
paragraph 4,
we request
that the word
"decides that
Sudan shall
accept the
tripartite
proposal" be
changed to
"calls
on Sudan to
accept the
tripartite
proposal"
Regarding
operative
paragraph 3,
we will
appreciate
changing the
wording of
"decides that
the Government
of Sudan and
the
SPLM-North"
be replaced by
"calls on the
Government of
Sudan and the
SPLM-North"
Operative
paragraph
9 to be
deleted.
This
is the most
serious
proposed
change. In
Operative
Paragraph 9
the proposed
the
Council
"9.
Expresses its
intention to
review
compliance by
Sudan and
South
Sudan with the
decisions
contained in
this
resolution,
and expresses
its
determination,
in the event
that one or
both of the
parties have
not complied,
to take
appropriate
additional
measures under
Article
41 of the
Charter."
This
is the threat
of sanctions
for
non-compliance,
and Sudan
wants it
"deleted."
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happen? Watch
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