Sudan rejects US-British peace resolution

SUDAN’S ruling party has rejected a US-British draft Security Council resolution to deploy United Nations peacekeepers in Darfur, saying it would violate national sovereignty.

According to Radio Omdurman and the SUNA news agency, the draft was discussed by the National Congress Party’s ruling council and a parliamentary group chaired by President Omar al-Bashir on Tuesday night.“

The draft resolution is worse than the previous ones because it constitutes an attempt to impose complete guardianship on the Sudan,” lawmaker Ghazi Salah Eldin Atabani said. “It did not pay any consideration to the bodies set up for implementation of the Darfur peace agreement and was not presented to the Sudanese authorities.”