AU brushes aside Sudan’s request for postponing PSC meeting
November 29, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The African Union (AU) on Monday rejected a request made by the Sudanese government to delay the meeting for the Peace and Security Council (PSC) that was to take place tomorrow in the Libyan capital.
Khalid said that the Sudanese foreign minister Ali Karti is expected to depart Libya and fly to Kuwait for an official visit to discuss bilateral relations and preparations for the East Sudan donors’ conference.
“The meeting will take place as scheduled” on Tuesday in Tripoli, the AU Peace and Security Commissioner Ramadan Lamamra told Agence France Presse (AFP).
“The positions of the Sudanese parties are not on the agenda,” he added.
Lamamra said former South African president Thabo Mbeki, who chairs an AU panel on Sudan, would present a report on the situation and that the meeting would also discuss events in the Ivory Coast and Guinea as well as other troublespots on the continent.
Karti announced on Sunday that his government decided to withdraw from the Africa-EU summit in Libya and even walked out of the closed-door meeting of African ministers who were trying to forge a common position ahead of the meeting which started on Monday.
The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir was supposed to jet in to attend the summit for which he was invited but the Libyan government made it clear that they are not willing to risk ruining the gathering after the EU members threatened to walk out if he shows up.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted Bashir in March 2009 on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and in July 2010 on charges of genocide, all linked to alleged atrocities in Darfur.
The Sudanese top diplomat said Bashir’s no-show at the summit was “to avoid embarrassment to Libya” and that the decision was taken “under pressure from Europe.”
On Sunday the Sudanese presidency issued a statement accusing European countries of “hypocrisy” for urging Bashir to implement Sudan’s 2005 north-south peace accord while at the same time trying to “undermine” his legitimacy.
Europe’s stand was “an attack on the African Union and Sudan while also undermining the idea of real dialogue and cooperation between Africa and Europe,”
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Obol Sam Gabriel
AU brushes aside Sudan’s request for postponing PSC meeting
Who are the Sudan Government to postpone the AU-EU meeting which scheduled to take place in Libya?without romours made by it’s clear to the whole world that this is the tactic these Arabs in Sudan used to do.People with open mind will not make such mistake,can you imagine how come 130 countries could postpone the meeting because of the absent of Sudan for the meeting what is important from President Bashir because he fear that (yani daman tu mapi al bi gobuto)if they have that fear to else with Sudan according to EU but not to AU which consist of Mundukuru.and i guess let him not try to attend the meeting like what he used to Nairobi,Chad,Arabs world and Adisababa.BY OBOL FROM KING COLLEGE LONDON
Moluddit Demalou
AU brushes aside Sudan’s request for postponing PSC meeting
Mr. Speaker,
Are you out of your senses, who are you to postponed the AU-EU security meeting to stabilize Sudan and other part of the world that are corrupted like you these days,
Do you think the world will focus on your ideas that are not even helpful to stabilize the country.
please just eat your money that you are stealing from Southern Sudan’s oil revenue.
Being stupid and non transparency to the whole world is useless, but not to address the press with stupid ideas.
you Arabs, time is very near to grind your teeth with no wealth except the one you have stolen before from th e oil revenue.
Libian are also corrupted like you that is why you imposed your common ideas but the meeting doesn’t belong to them.
stop that stupidity talking, you dog of NCP.