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After UN Meeting on Sudan, Khartoum Denies Crackdown, Waffles on Libya

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, March 21 -- Amid killing and threats between Southern Sudan and Khartoum, the UN Security Council held a closed meeting on March 21. But the outcome was far from clear.


After the meeting Pagan Amum of Southern Sudan told Inner City Press that the Council had admonished Khartoum, and that the UN would be involved in investigating the National Congress Party's aid to the renegade generals the SPLM is fighting.

Earlier, Pagan Amum told Inner City Press that the UN Mission in Sudan, under Haile Menkerios, was wrong for flying to Abyei on a UN helicopter NCP member Ahmed Haroun, indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Darfur.

But Khartoum's Ambassador Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman told Inner City Press that in the closed door meeting, UN Peacekeeping deputy Atul Khare had criticized the SPLM for not granting it access.

Inner City Press asked him about protests in Darfur, the shooting death of a student protester and reported closing of the university in El Fasher. He denied the university had been closed.

After Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman alleged that Darfur rebel leader Minawi is hosted in Southern Sudan, Inner City Press asked him if he knows whether another Darfur leader, Khalid Ibrahim, is still in Libya. He said he didn't know.

Inner City Press asked him what is Sudan's position on the Security Council resolution and action on Libya.



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