Sudan in consultations to deal with UN resolutions: FM

KHARTOUM, April 27 (Xinhua) — Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Othman Ismail said Tuesday that his government is conducting internal and external consultations in an effort to deal with UN resolutions on Sudan.

A Sudanese boy runs while playing at the al-Sereif refugee camp in the outskirts of Nyala in the southern Darfur region. (AFP).

He told reporters that vast consultations are underway through special committees set up to study the resolutions.

The UN Security Council passed three resolutions on Sudan successively in late March, imposing enormous pressure on it to solve the Darfur crisis.

Khartoum has announced its rejection to Resolution 1593 which demands referring war crime suspects in Darfur to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, saying it lacks the base of objective justice and violates its sovereignty.

Ismail told reporters that the Sudanese government is still studying Resolution 1591 which calls for sanctions on those who committed atrocities in Sudan’s western Darfur region.

As regards to Resolution 1590, Ismail said the government has approved the resolution and concerned mechanisms have started its implementation.

Resolution 1590, adopted unanimously by the Security Council, stipulates to send 10,000 troops and more than 700 civilian police to southern Sudan for an initial period of six months to support a peace agreement which ended more than two decades of civil war.