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EU Gives Sudan New Deadline Over Darfur
| That's what I like to see! Decisive action! That'll show 'em, by Gum! |
The European Union warned Sudan yesterday it would impose sanctions if security in the conflict-torn Darfur region did not improve within two months.
| "Youse guys are gonna get it!" |
| they said, confidently assuming that their younger, stronger, faster brother would help them in a jam ... |
Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot, representing the rotating EU presidency, welcomed Sudan's acceptance of up to 4,000 African monitors and a promise of cooperation with a UN investigation into whether genocide has taken place. But he said more action was needed on disarming militias, bringing human rights abusers to justice and returning home an estimated 1.5 million people driven from their villages. "Not sufficient progress has been made on the protection of civilians in Darfur. The situation in the field is not yet satisfactory," Bot told journalists after talks in Khartoum with his Sudanese counterpart Mustafa Osman Ismail. "If it turns out that in the next two months nothing has happened ... the situation is worsening, then there is no other option for us than to apply sanctions and we have made that crystal clear," he said.
Posted by: Fred 2004-10-14 |
