On Darfur, Sudan Tells US Minni Minnawi Did It, UNAMID Should Notify
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, July 16, 2013 - Tuesday as the UN Security Council met about
Syria, Sudan's Permanent Representative Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman went into
the Council suite to talk about Darfur and the seven Tanzanian peacekeepers
killed there on July 13.
Afterward he exclusively told Inner City Press he had made three points "to
the Americans" about the killings. First, that Sudan denies responsibility
and blames instead the SLA Minni Minnawi rebels group. Second, that Sudan
intends to hold them accountable. And third, that UNAMID should give notice
to the Sudan Army before traveling.
Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman said the Army has a good sense of which rebel
groups are where; he also said that sometimes the peacekeepers don't fight
back to defend themselves. (There was a case where weapons and vehicles were
taken without a fight.)
On July 15, Inner City Press asked UN spokesperson Martin Nesirky if
Tanzania's army spokesman was correct that UNAMID is
<
http://www.innercitypress.com/dpko2darbast071513.html> "under Chapter VI"
of the UN Charter, or rather Chapter VII, what the purpose of the traveling
had been and if any vehicles were taken.
On July 16 Nesirky returned with these answers: UNAMID is under Chapter VII
(contrary to the reported quotes of the Tanzanian army spokesman); it was a
"routine confidence building patrol" and one vehicle was stolen, others
later recovered.
When US Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo emerged from the lengthy Council session
to take questions, she understandably focused on Syria, but then read an
answer from notes to a seemingly pre-arranged question about a Panamanian
search of a ship and sanctions. No Sudan question was taken, or read-out
given, as was also the case after Monday afternoon's briefing by Dmitry
Titov and consultations on the Darfur killings. UNAMID Troop Contributing
Countries meet on July 18. Watch this site.
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In Somaliland, UN Returns Airspace Grabbed for Somalia, Bax Racket Continues
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, July 15, 2013 - When Somaliland and Somalia met in Turkey
last week <
http://www.innercitypress.com/somaliland2turkey070813.html> , the
issue of the UN's unilateral grab of Somalialand's air space came up.
The final communique "agreed to the return of the air traffic management
from the UN and decided to establish a joint control body that is based in
Hargeisa to lead the air traffic control of both sides. It is also agreed
that this body will propose a mechanism for equitable revenue-sharing."
On this basis, <
http://www.funca.info> Free UN Coalition for Access
<
http://www.innercitypress.com/funca2somaliland070413.html> member Mohamoud
Walaaleye tells us, Somaliland's "Minister of Aviation, Mohamoud H. Abdi,
today announced revoking their earlier suspension of UN planes reaching its
airports.
"At a press conference Minister Abdi, hold at his office inside Egal
airport said, 'according to agreements reached Turkey, I announce today the
revoking of them temporary suspension of UN planes reaching our airports.
With preliminary agreements, we proclaim reopening UN flights.'"
He's also provided us a copy of the
<
http://www.innercitypress.com/somaliland1air070513.jpg> July 5 suspension
order, which we put online here.
Meanwhile in Mogadishu, the UN and its UN Mine Action Service have
<
http://www.innercitypress.com/unmas4somalia062613.html> stonewalled
questions raised about UNMAS boss David Bax sharing information with US
intelligence, and near total control of the compound, quid pro quos.
<
http://www.innercitypress.com/unmas5somalia070113.html> Nicolas Kay told
Inner City Press <
https://twitter.com/Somalia111/status/351768886997299200>
this is a question for New York. But the UN in New York, from UNMAS to UN
Peacekeeping's <
http://youtu.be/rm1V-cY9u40> Herve Ladsous, have refused to
answer the question. UN people say this has all put them at risk. But so it
goes. Watch this site.
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