UNSC may authorize limited buffer zones on Sudan’s North-South borders
October 13, 2010 (WASHINGTON) – The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) may authorize beefing up the presence of peacekeepers at certain parts of the Sudan’s North-South borders, council diplomats said on Wednesday.
But council diplomats today said that such a request in unrealistic to implement.
“Nobody thinks it’s realistic to put UNMIS [United Nations Mission in Sudan], even if we had masses more troops, along the north-south border in a country that large,” one council diplomat, who did not want to be identified, was quoted by Reuters.
“But I think one thing we can and should consider … is looking at augmenting UNMIS in certain hotspots along the border where a buffer presence could be established.”
UNMIS is the 10,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force that monitors compliance with a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of north-south civil war in Sudan.
Khartoum has strongly rejected any move to deploy UN troops on the borders.
“Sudan is still one country and it is very strange that a part of the state asks for international troops without the consent or agreement of the federal government,” said Ibrahim Ghandour, the head of political bureau at the ruling National Congress Party (NCP).
The Sudanese foreign minister Ali Karti on his end described it as a violation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed with the Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) in control of the South.
Troops from both sides have clashed since the CPA, most recently in the contested Abyei oil region. Each side has accused the other of building up troops near their shared border as the southern referendum approaches.
The long awaited self determination referendum in South Sudan is widely expected to result in the creation of the world’s newest state. It has been promised in the CPA though both sides were asked to make unity option an attractive one to Southerners.
The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir this week warned that the stalled process of demarcating the North-South borders threatens to reignite the conflict between both sides.
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Ahmed Chol
UNSC may authorize limited buffer zones on Sudan’s North-South borders
A complete buffer zone along the border will help minimized the conflict. Without this war is eminent and then a new peace will signed again. That peace will hard to negotiate and the UN will find itself involve again. It will be good if the UN can help in preventing disaster so that it is not involved later in finding the solution.
Ahmed Chol, the future commander of Anya-nya III if the south joins the north
Young Nation
UNSC may authorize limited buffer zones on Sudan’s North-South borders
God want to truly answer the recent proposal I made to my United Nations class presentation when I firmly requested the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon and his strong perminent Security Council Member States to consider taking stern measures in finalizing the final stage of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement of which the UN is one of part and percel since day one of the signing of CPA.
Indeed, if the UN Security Council deploy its UN troops currently station in the interior of South Sudan to the vast North/South borders, this could be one of war diffusing mechanisms. However, failure to carryout this wise decision could definitely lead to the resumption of full North/South military confrontation. Let us cross our fingers and wait for this good news to be put into effect by the UNSC.
SPLM Oyee!
SPLA Oyee!
Referendum Oyee!
South Sudan Nation Oyee!
Young Nation is a Student of International Relations/Political Science at The University of Queensland, Australia.
Adam
UNSC may authorize limited buffer zones on Sudan’s North-South borders
To Devils of Sudan – the NCP and SPLA/M
It is better to sit down and resolve pending issues – all of them. Not the West, the UN or AU can help in the Sudanese crisis. The above is nonsense, totally unrealistic. UN needs a lot of discussions, finance and troops. This cannot also be implemented without the agreement with the North, which is demanding finalization of pending issues – the border line is the most important at present.
The present UN forces cannot change mandate just like that.
Is it not more wise and more realistic to resolve the problems rather than putting our heads in the sand and postpone flammable issues to next year?
Dinka and Messiriay should be encouraged to solve their land differences with interventions from the devils of the world – the NCP, SPLA/M, the West, AU or the stupid North or South failed political parties.
Let the people in Sudan live in peace and work for development – both North and South.
War is bad – everybody losses.
Adam Milawaki, Kansas City
Padiet Deng Alony
UNSC may authorize limited buffer zones on Sudan’s North-South borders
South Sudan do not care of any thing going to happen but need to seek peaceful solution first and all knows when peace end then millitary interference will be there. South is seeking win/win solution but if national criminal party ncp is insisting then this final war will not be fought in the South as battle field no, your children in the north sudan will also hear the sound of bullet.
remain national criminal party that if the CPA end there will be no any peace to be sign between Southern Sudan as Separate Country with the north arab.
DASODIKO
UNSC may authorize limited buffer zones on Sudan’s North-South borders
Good step towards cowing the NCP from attacking the innocent people of the South Sudan. Bashir put only one option only yes for the unity otherwise is not acceptable for them. However’ the bureaucratic procedures of UNSC will give a hance for the National Congress Party to engage in war before the deployment of UN forces on the ground.