Identifier
Created
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07USUNNEWYORK1191
2007-12-20 16:12:00
CONFIDENTIAL
USUN New York
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UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
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C O N F I D E N T I A L USUN NEW YORK 001191
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/19/2017
TAGS: PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV
SUBJECT: UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
COMMENT ON PANEL,S RECOMMENDATIONS ON SANCTIONS
Classified By: AMBASSADOR JACKIE WOLCOTT, FOR REASONS: 1.4(B) AND (D).
C O N F I D E N T I A L USUN NEW YORK 001191
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/19/2017
TAGS: PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV
SUBJECT: UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
COMMENT ON PANEL,S RECOMMENDATIONS ON SANCTIONS
Classified By: AMBASSADOR JACKIE WOLCOTT, FOR REASONS: 1.4(B) AND (D).
1. (C) On December 7 Italian PermRep and Chairman of the
Sudan Sanctions Committee Marcello Spatafora reported to the
Security Council on the Committee's discussion of the Sudan
Panel of Experts, October report, which examined the
implementation of the sanctions regime over the past year.
The Chairman's statement made clear the depth of the
Committee's paralysis, laying out not only the inability of
the Committee to agree on the Panel's substantive
recommendations, but its failure to agree to a basic press
release in advance of the Sirte talks stating that the
Committee was continuing its work in support of the peace
process.
2. (C) USUN Ambassador Jackie Wolcott expressed serious
concern about the arms embargo and human rights violations by
the parties to the conflict in Darfur, and stated that the
United States remained open to supporting further sanctions
if doing so would advance the peace process. UK Perm Rep
John Sawers recalled the impediments to humanitarian access
and the deployment of UNAMID, the failure of the GOS to
cooperate with the ICC, and the persistent violations of the
arms embargo. Sawers argued that it would not be credible
for the Council to be indefinitely patient on the question of
sanctions. French PermRep Jean-Maurice Ripert echoed UK
comments and added that the Council should consider
responding "at the right time" to all parties that violate
Council resolutions, which Belgian PermRep Johan Verbeke
supported. Slovak PermRep Peter Burian recalled UN Special
Envoy Jan Eliasson's November 26 remarks that it had at times
been useful to have the Council beating the drum of sanctions
in the background as Eliasson worked to bring the parties to
the negotiating table. Ghanaian PermRep Leslie Christian
expressed regret that the Committee could not find consensus
on any of the key recommendations, as full implementation of
resolution 1591 would result in an improvement in the
situation on the ground.
3. (C) Indonesia also expressed concern that the sanctions
were neither respected nor fully implemented, but underlined
the importance of the peace process as a way forward, and
suggested that the Council look at the role of "external
partners" when considering violations of the arms embargo.
Russia stressed that the Committee must consider the
situation in a comprehensive way and conduct its work in
close cooperation with the GOS, adding that sanctions were
only one instrument of many to achieve the goal of a stable
political settlement to the crisis in Darfur.
Khalilzad
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/19/2017
TAGS: PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV
SUBJECT: UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
COMMENT ON PANEL,S RECOMMENDATIONS ON SANCTIONS
Classified By: AMBASSADOR JACKIE WOLCOTT, FOR REASONS: 1.4(B) AND (D).
1. (C) On December 7 Italian PermRep and Chairman of the
Sudan Sanctions Committee Marcello Spatafora reported to the
Security Council on the Committee's discussion of the Sudan
Panel of Experts, October report, which examined the
implementation of the sanctions regime over the past year.
The Chairman's statement made clear the depth of the
Committee's paralysis, laying out not only the inability of
the Committee to agree on the Panel's substantive
recommendations, but its failure to agree to a basic press
release in advance of the Sirte talks stating that the
Committee was continuing its work in support of the peace
process.
2. (C) USUN Ambassador Jackie Wolcott expressed serious
concern about the arms embargo and human rights violations by
the parties to the conflict in Darfur, and stated that the
United States remained open to supporting further sanctions
if doing so would advance the peace process. UK Perm Rep
John Sawers recalled the impediments to humanitarian access
and the deployment of UNAMID, the failure of the GOS to
cooperate with the ICC, and the persistent violations of the
arms embargo. Sawers argued that it would not be credible
for the Council to be indefinitely patient on the question of
sanctions. French PermRep Jean-Maurice Ripert echoed UK
comments and added that the Council should consider
responding "at the right time" to all parties that violate
Council resolutions, which Belgian PermRep Johan Verbeke
supported. Slovak PermRep Peter Burian recalled UN Special
Envoy Jan Eliasson's November 26 remarks that it had at times
been useful to have the Council beating the drum of sanctions
in the background as Eliasson worked to bring the parties to
the negotiating table. Ghanaian PermRep Leslie Christian
expressed regret that the Committee could not find consensus
on any of the key recommendations, as full implementation of
resolution 1591 would result in an improvement in the
situation on the ground.
3. (C) Indonesia also expressed concern that the sanctions
were neither respected nor fully implemented, but underlined
the importance of the peace process as a way forward, and
suggested that the Council look at the role of "external
partners" when considering violations of the arms embargo.
Russia stressed that the Committee must consider the
situation in a comprehensive way and conduct its work in
close cooperation with the GOS, adding that sanctions were
only one instrument of many to achieve the goal of a stable
political settlement to the crisis in Darfur.
Khalilzad