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Darfur: no joint declaration after a meeting of the UN Security Council

2021-01-21T22:25:39.931Z


The UN Security Council met behind closed doors on Thursday to discuss the recent deadly clashes in Darfur, without agreeing on a joint declaration or on a possible change of posture, according to diplomats. The emergency meeting had been requested by Europeans and the United States after inter-ethnic clashes earlier this week which left more than 200 dead in three days in this vast region of west


The UN Security Council met behind closed doors on Thursday to discuss the recent deadly clashes in Darfur, without agreeing on a joint declaration or on a possible change of posture, according to diplomats.

The emergency meeting had been requested by Europeans and the United States after inter-ethnic clashes earlier this week which left more than 200 dead in three days in this vast region of western Sudan.

Read also: Sudan: more than 80 dead in tribal violence in Darfur

Europeans, the United States and Mexico have proposed adopting a declaration aimed at urging the Sudanese government to speed up the application of its plan to protect populations.

But they were met with a refusal by African members of the Council, India, Russia and China, who call for respect for Sudan's sovereignty, diplomats told AFP.

"This is an inter-community conflict"

and there are always

"remains (of clashes) in a country in a post-conflict situation"

, notes on condition of anonymity a diplomat from the camp who refused a statement common.

"It is a country in a difficult situation and we must help it rather than give it lessons," he

adds.

During the meeting, a majority of members of the Council, according to another diplomat, for their part condemned the violence, some stressing that it is up to the government to fill the period of

"hollow"

caused by the judgment of December 31 of UNAMID, the joint peacekeepers mission to the UN and the African Union.

Spread over six months, the withdrawal of some 8000 members of this mission "has not changed," said the diplomat, also speaking on condition of anonymity.

"Going back would undermine the building of people's trust in the government," he

adds.

"It is a serious disgrace for the UN",

judged another diplomatic source.

The peacekeepers

"are there but they have no mandate"

to intervene, she laments.

If a precarious calm seems to have returned to Darfur with the deployment of Sudanese troops, fears of further violence persist in this region of Sudan scarred by years of conflict.

At the end of last year, the UN indicated that the Sudanese authorities had pledged to deploy in Darfur a protection force of 12,000 members to take over, from January, from UNAMID peacekeepers after 13 years. presence.

After the closure of this mission, the UN has planned to stay in Sudan via a political mission based in Khartoum, intended to support the transition in Sudan.

The conflict in Darfur, which left some 300,000 dead and more than 2.5 million displaced, erupted in 2003 between forces of the regime of former President Omar al-Bashir, who was deposed in April 2019 under pressure from the street, and members of ethnic minorities who consider themselves marginalized.

Source: lefigaro

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