Sudan Rejects UN Peace Mission
  
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir February 16, 2007, Friday had rejected the peace mission for
Darfur. He had said that he would not grant visas to UN rights monitors who want to visit
Darfur. He prefers for
Darfur to be under the protection of the African Union instead and the UN will be confined to the technical and logistics role. Another remark made by Bashir was that Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council, led by Nobel peace laureate and anti-landmines campaigner Jody Williams, were not allowed onto the grounds of
Darfur for he finds the party guilty for being biased. He finds that the member’s views are unprejudiced therefore making it hard to see if their words were honest in anyway he said at the end of an Africa-France conference. The reason of the peace proposal was because of the conflicts going on in
Darfur. About 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million people were displaced after the fight/war in 2003, this has raised overwhelming concerns dominating the two-day gathering in the Riviera resort of
Cannes. President Jacques Chirac had added during a summit that he urges Bashir to accept western and international forces to come aid the country for he is afraid humanitarian catastrophe may arise. Currently the UN chief is waiting for Sudanese president to respond to his request of sending in 2,300 UN troops to help out
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