Fw: The Leadership of the SPLM-N Restates its Commitment to the Vaccination Campaign and the Involvement of UNISFA and its Readiness for a Humanitarian Cessation of Hostilities Inbox x Omer Osman 13 Jul (3 days ago) to Hamid ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Omer Osman To: omer adam Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 3:44 PM Subject: Fw: The Leadership of the SPLM-N Restates its Commitment to the Vaccination Campaign and the Involvement of UNISFA and its Readiness for a Humanitarian Cessation of Hostilities The Leadership of the SPLM-N Restates its Commitment to the Vaccination Campaign and the Involvement of UNISFA and its Readiness for a Humanitarian Cessation of Hostilities In its meeting from the 27th of June to the 5th of July in the Nuba Mountains, the SPLM-N leadership discussed the humanitarian situation as a matter of priority and many other issues. On the humanitarian situation, we resolved the following: 1) The SPLM-N renewed its commitment to UNSC Resolution 2046. 2) The SPLM-N expressed its readiness for an immediate humanitarian cessation of hostilities with the Sudan government as well as resolving the political crisis in Sudan. 3) The SPLM-N forwarded a new idea to speed up and facilitate the vaccination campaign by involving UNISFA to carry-out the necessary arrangements and in particular, ensuring the safety of the United Nations personnel involved in the vaccination program with the full cooperation of the parties and providing logistics for them especially in the SPLM-N areas. These are the most fundamental issues holding back the campaign. It is to be recalled that the SPLM-N, during the shelling of the Khartoum command and control military installations in Kadugli last month, has established direct contact with UNISFA and coordinated with them to stop the shelling on Kadugli which was affecting UNISFA headquarters in Kadugli. The SPLM-N is aware that the Khartoum government put UNISFA headquarters in Kadugli intentionally and is endangering the lives of the United Nations personnel. When the SPLM-N responds in defending our areas, it is going to be seen as though we are attacking the civilian population and the United Nations, which are both used as a human shield and cover by the Khartoum government to continue carrying out indiscriminate attacks and aerial bombardment against civilian populations from Kadugli. Logically, the headquarters of UNISFA were to be located in El Obeid City, the capital of Northern Kordofan, which is the appropriate location for an Abyei area peacekeeping force rather than Kadugli, but the Sudan government is attacking civilian populations in the SPLM-N controlled areas and using the presence of UNISFA to prevent any reaction from the SPLM-N in defense of civilian populations. Nevertheless the SPLM-N is ready to use the presence of UNISFA positively to facilitate the vaccination campaign and to increase the chances for a full humanitarian cessation of hostilities. 4) The SPLM-N is ready to facilitate for the International Red Cross (IRC) to access more than 100 prisoners of war, including senior officers of the Sudan army, who are under the custody of the SRF and the SPLM-N in both South Kordofan and Blue Nile. As we did in the evacuation of the Chinese workers with IRC offices in Ethiopia and Kenya, we are ready to cooperate with them once again to enable the POWs to establish contact with their families and to prepare for further steps that will lead to them to be released. 5) The SPLM-N is also ready to cooperate with the national, regional and international organizations that are working on women’s issues, preventing child soldiers, and demining to work in the SPLM-N liberated areas. The SPLM-N will work towards insuring compliance with international humanitarian law during war time in general and continuously building capacity in that regard. 6) The SPLM-N leadership reiterated its call and support for an independent international investigation committee to investigate the human rights violations in Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile, Northern Kordofan and Darfur especially in the last months. 7) The SPLM-N is deeply concerned about the arbitrary arrest of more than 1,200 from the SPLM-N leaders and members and the SRF and from activists and civil society in Khartoum and other cities especially because some of them were tortured and those who are in detention include women and children. We call upon the national and international organizations and the activists all over the world to work for their release and to expose the continuous violations of the Khartoum government especially the war crimes, including genocide, and the indiscriminate aerial bombardment of the civil populations and the denial of humanitarian access that went on for more than two years, which is a war crime that is affecting more than 700,000 displaced people in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile. Yasir Arman Secretary General, SPLM-N July 13, 2013
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:56:58 +0000
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