Phuzzie_the_camera_girl
War Child
Okay...after researching for a speech on the crisis in Sudan I found some info...
In order for sanctions to be issued on Sudan and Sudan to be forced to do SOMETHING about the genocide, the UN needs to agree that genocide is in fact occuring (I think uninanimously?)
Anyway...the U.S. already acknowledged the genocide...but other countries are simply refusing because they don't want the sanctions...
I dug around the U.S. Secretary of State site and found this:
Is that what this is about?
People are dying and the UN is concerned about OIL?
In order for sanctions to be issued on Sudan and Sudan to be forced to do SOMETHING about the genocide, the UN needs to agree that genocide is in fact occuring (I think uninanimously?)
Anyway...the U.S. already acknowledged the genocide...but other countries are simply refusing because they don't want the sanctions...
I dug around the U.S. Secretary of State site and found this:
On-The-Record Briefing: United States Agency for International Development Administrator Andrew S. Natsios and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Affairs Michael Ranneberger on Sudan
Washington, DC
September 29, 2004
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QUESTION: Do Russia, Algeria and Pakistan -- you mentioned China extracting oil, Mr. Natsios did -- do they have commercial interests there, those three countries?
ADMINISTRATOR NATSIOS: There was a --
QUESTION: The reason I ask --
ADMINISTRATOR NATSIOS: Pakistan just took over the oil concessions of Chevron-Texaco. I don't know whether Algeria or Russia does, but Pakistan and China do. That's not secret information.
QUESTION: The Secretary did an interview and, surprisingly, said commercial interests motivated countries to not support the U.S. on genocide. He bracketed these four but he didn't pinpoint which, if all, or possibly all of the four, he is accusing.
ADMINISTRATOR NATSIOS: I don't know about the other two. I can tell you Pakistan and China clearly do have commercial interests.
QUESTION: So does Russia.
ADMINISTRATOR NATSIOS: Russia does, too?
QUESTION: Russia, too.
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Is that what this is about?
People are dying and the UN is concerned about OIL?