Colombia to oversee UN sanctions on Sudan, Iran in 2011
December 22, 2010 (Nairobi) – Colombia has been charged by the UN Security Council (UNSC) to oversee sanctions imposed on Sudan and Iran for the next year, an assignment likely to be tricky in view of the two countries’ track record of defying international resolutions.
Colombia was elected in October 2010 to one of the ten non-permanent seats in the UNSC, along with the council’s five permanent members representing France, Russia, China, the United States and the United Kingdom. It won an uncontested vote to represent Latin America and the Caribbean in the UN body for the 2011-2012 term.
UNSC’s sanctions were first imposed on Sudan under resolution 1556, which was adopted on July, 30 2004 in response to alleged violations of human rights and attack on the civilians.
Later in 2005, resolution 1591 strengthened the sanctions, extending the scope of the arms embargo and imposing additional measures a travel ban and an asset freeze on individuals designated by the UNSC.
A recent confidential UN report had concluded that Sudan committed several breaches of the UNSC’s arms embargo in Darfur, pointing the figure at China for doing so little to ensure that its weaponry are not used in the war battered region.
The conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur broke out in 2003 between rebels belonging mostly to African ethnic groups and the central government in Khartoum.
An abusive counterinsurgency campaign orchestrated by Khartoum and its allied Arab militias in the region led to the killing of nearly 300,000 people and displacement of 2 million, according to UN figures.
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Young Nation
Colombia to oversee UN sanctions on Sudan, Iran in 2011
Dear UN,
The United Nations General Assembly and its powerful branch the United Nations Security Council need to really distingushes South Sudan from North Sudan. I’m very sure that South Sudan has nothing to do with international Community’s economic or political sanction. I think it time for UN to clearly know the genuine political status of South Sudan. I mean to say that South Sudan is already a separate political entity from North Sudan.
Young Nation is a BA student at UQ, Queensland
omoni Atari
Colombia to oversee UN sanctions on Sudan, Iran in 2011
“Colombia was elected in october 2011 to one of the Ten non permanent seats in UNSC”
hahhaha,This is very wrong information pass to the public ever heard from UNSC OR whoever act like journalist to report this.
We are not yet reached 2011,so who elected colombia?
Rubish,