Sudan says US efforts on Darfur for internal political agenda
Sept 23, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese official said that US Administration works to issue another resolution on Darfur in order to satisfy the American voters and to please Jewish organization that are funding US political forces.
Sudanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ali Ahmed Karti, said that the US Administration has put pressures on the Security Council to issue another resolutions following the resolution 1706 on Darfur crisis with the aim to get satisfaction of American voters in the complementary elections for the Congress and to gratify humanitarian and Jewish organizations that are funding the American elections.
Sudan has rejected a U.N. Security Council resolution adopted on Aug. 31 authorizing up to 22,500 troops and police to replace the cash-strapped and ill-equipped AU troops.
In a statement to the official SUNA, Karti said that Zionist organizations are paying funds in major newspapers in the United States so as to reflect a distorted image on the situation in Darfur.
Karti who is a member of the ruling National Congress Party said that the issue of Darfur has become a subject of internal discussion and competition between the American parties in their race for getting power at the US administration.
Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir said Tuesday 19 September that there is a plan to divide Sudan and to redraw the region. “The main purpose is the security of Israel. Any state in the [Middle east] should be weakened, dismembered in order to protect the Israelis, to guarantee the Israeli security,” he said.
The minister pointed out that Israel is targeting the states and the groups that do not recognize it, and in the same time seeking to establish a security belt for its interest which extends from the River Nile till Euphrates.
Karti said that Israel is a major force that supports the armed opposition in Sudan by weapons and ammunition and helping them to establish extensive relations with European and other countries.
He said that Israel is providing political, material and media support to the parties which refused to sign Darfur peace agreement through the Zionist organizations that are working all over the world, adding that Israel is also inciting rebel movements in Darfur not to sign any peace agreement with the government.
The minister said that one of the rebels admitted that they are receiving support from western countries and even Israel.
He said that the western countries are adopting the policy of stick and carrot with African leaders in order to make them approve the resolution and policies which are motivated by the western states.
Last week in the meeting of the UN General Assembly, some African speakers including Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, hinted at U.N. intervention without the consent of Khartoum. She called on the Security Council to act to restore peace “security and stability” to Darfur. But U.N. officials have said no country has volunteered to shoot its way in.
He said that the African leaders shall be alert and not to give any chance for the western countries to push their forces in the continent.
Years of fighting in Sudan’s Darfur troubled region have forced more than 2 million people to flee their homes for overcrowded refugee camps with little prospect of returning to the life they once knew.
Non-Arab tribes took up arms against the government in February 2003 to protest alleged alleged neglect and oppression. In turn Sudanese government, unleashed and armed Arab militia, known as Janjaweed, who murdered and raped civilians.
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