World Leaders Must Fulfill Their Promise

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has charged Sudanese President Bashir with genocide. The ICC has taken a decisive step forward, but the U.N. Security Council is still dragging its feet.

On July 31, 2007, the Security Council promised to deploy 19,000 additional peacekeepers to help stop the violence in Darfur. One year later, barely 2,000 of the authorized peacekeepers have arrived in Darfur, and those who are there lack the equipment and resources to do their jobs.

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Dear U.N. Security Council Member,

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The recent attack on the UNAMID civilian protection force between the towns Gusa Jamat and Wadah in North Darfur is a brutal example of the Security Council's persistent lack of meaningful action to ensure the full and effective deployment of the UNAMID peacekeeping force in Darfur.

One year ago, you voted for a resolution to deploy a strong peacekeeping force to Darfur. Since that vote, barely 10 percent of the additional peacekeepers have arrived.

As a permanent member of the Security Council, you are a representative of one of the most powerful countries in the world. Yet, the Security Council has taken negligible substantive action as its resolutions on Darfur continue to be ignored and the situation on the ground worsens.

I urge you to work diligently to ensure the full and rapid deployment of UNAMID and the swift delivery of all equipment necessary for UNAMID to fulfill its mandate.

In particular you must:

1. Ensure that UNAMID actually receives all of the equipment and resources necessary to fulfill its mandate, including the transport and tactical helicopters, engineering units, aerial reconnaissance unit, formed police units, and the countless containers still waiting to make the trip from Port Sudan to Darfur.

2. Include clear benchmarks and targets for deployment in a resolution renewing UNAMID's mandate.

3. Impose sanctions on individuals, in or out of the Sudanese government, who obstruct deployment.

4. Exercise stronger oversight of the DPKO to ensure that bureaucratic hurdles are swiftly resolved.

Thank you for your leadership on this urgent matter.

Sincerely,

Andrew Kooman
108 Cosgrove Cres.
Red Deer, AB T4P 2W5
Canada

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