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Sudan's UN Envoy Admits Right to Intervene in Rwanda
By Inner City Press at the UN
Oct 9, 2006, 10:28

Matthew Russell Lee 

 
UNITED NATIONS, October 6 -- Sudan's ambassador to the UN on Friday 
acknowledged the right of the international community to intervene 
without governmental consent in a situation like Rwanda in 1994. In 
response to a question from Inner City Press about Darfur, Rwanda and 
Cambodia under Pol Pot, Sudanese Amb. Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem 
mentioned the UN Millennium Declaration and the duty "to protect," 
while seeking to distinguish "orderly" Sudan from Rwanda. Video on UNTV 
from Minute 10:12, http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/sc/so061006pm1.rm
Amb. Abdalhaleem: Rwanda yes, Darfur no
             
Inner City Press also asked the Sudanese Ambassador about 
reports of his government sabotaging military equipment en route to the 
African Union force in Darfur, including the statements of U.S. 
Assistant Secretary of State Frazer about bolts being removed from 
armored personnel carriers and the AMIS force commander having to wait 
in Ethiopia while a visa to enter Sudan was delayed.
             
Amb. Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem called these "minor matters" 
and said that "bureaucratic delay is bureaucratic delay." He said that 
Inner City Press and the other media present could get visas for Sudan 
and Darfur anytime. Since journalists have been locked up by Sudan, and 
many have their computers' hard drives scanned and copies as they enter 
or leave Sudan, the invitation may mean less than it sounded like at 
the stakeout.