With our correspondent in the region, Florence Morice
Volker Perthes was expected before the Security Council on Wednesday to present his report on the situation in Sudan. But at the last minute, his participation was cancelled. Linda Thomas, Washington’s Ambassador to theHIM, accuses the Sudanese authorities of being behind it. She denounces a desire for censorship and threats made, according to her, by Khartoum against the United Nations mission in Sudan and his representative.
« We now know that the Sudanese government had threatened to terminate the UN mission in Sudan if the representative of that mission attended this meeting. It’s really outrageous. No country should be able to impose silence on a speaker let alone the United Nations “, she was indignant.
« Large scale sexual violence » and enrollment of children
Sudan’s ambassador to the UN has denied the accusations. ” The Sudanese mission (to the UN) did not send a letter threatening to boycott the session of the Security Council “, he said.
Anyway, Volker Perthes is in Khartoum’s crosshairs. In June, he was declared persona non grata in the country after denouncing possible “ crimes against humanity in Darfur.
In her absence, she is the assistant to the secretary general in charge ofAfrica, Martha Ama Pobee, who presented her latest report on Sudan. In particular, it is about ” large-scale sexual violence » and enlistment of children.
2023-08-11 23:05:00
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