Posted on 02/01/2005 7:17:43 PM PST by HAL9000
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 1 (AFP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday called for deploying 10,130 peacekeepers to Sudan in the wake of a peace accord reached between the government and rebels operating in the south of the country.In a report to the Security Council, Annan said the force will help Khartoum implement the agreement signed with rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 9.
The contingent will include 750 military observers, 160 officers, small peacekeeping units totaling 5,070 personnel, a protection force of 4,150 soldiers. An additional force of 755 police officers is proposed.
The task of the troops will be to supervise the implementation of the accord, ratified Tuesday to bring to an end Sudan's 21-year war that claimed at least 1.5 million lives.
Ratification opens the way for a committee to form to draft a provisional constitution for a six-year interim period leading up to a referendum on independence for the south.
I thought the U.N. had just concluded there was no genocide in that country so what do they need the troops for?
Annan? Sudan? Peacekeepers?
What is this bottom-feeder trying to do now? Make the UN look like it has some credible objective? (bucket please)
Where on earth is he going to get that number Fiji ?
10,130??...Why not 10,134 or 10,129?? I mean, when there is no genocide and it's just "people in the country of sudan dealing with their infrastructure", why not kofi go there himself and iron out their differences, being the world's leading statesman and all....What a ignoranimus. Puke on my keyboard now...I'm billing the UN for cleanup.
FMCDH(BITS)
An NGO by the name of Al Qaeda?
France and Germany, party of two, your table is ready.
FMCDH(BITS)
FMCDH(BITS)
I volunteer France and Germany to provide the requested people.
What a wondeful opportunity for 'old europe' to show us how these interventions should be done. A nice small force requirement, fully sanctioned by the UN. Obviously the project will not need our help if its left in the capable hands of France, Germany and Belgium.
Ha...ha ha...hahaha...BWAHAHAHAHA...spuurt phlegm snot barf cough choke! (the un owes me a lot of money for clean-up bills.)
FMCDH(BITS)
Pro terrorist troops to seize the southern oil fields for his Chi Com buddies...
Back to another oil for food program skim flam Koffi
Klutch
WANTED:
10,000 more rapists needed to pasify Sudan.
Qualifications:
none.
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