By : gonbadwetland At : Sun 5 Apr 2009
Questioned, the U.S. envoy to Sudan, Scott Gracian, Saturday in the Sudanese government had backtracked on the decision to expel 13 of the country, a humanitarian organization, warned that Darfur is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis, according to the report.
Gracian said after his visit to a refugee camp north of Darfur, "I am very concerned that I saw, and I think we are on the brink of a profound humanitarian crisis in Darfur," according to "newspaper" the Sudan Tribune. "
He stressed that the western region will need in the weeks to the new relief, and expressed the hope that the Sudanese government to understand the gravity of the situation there and work with the international community to address the situation.
I suggest the American envoy to fill the gaps left by the expulsion of humanitarian relief organizations to form local organizations, he said, adding, "We need to work with the Sudanese non-governmental organizations .. I think that they have the capacity to fill some gaps."
The Sudanese government has initiated the expulsion of non-governmental humanitarian organizations, claiming a violation of its mandate, after the issuance of the International Criminal Court arrest warrant against President Omar al-Bashir on the fourth of March last, for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the vast territory west of Sudan.
Despite appeals, but the Sudanese authorities have stressed that the sovereign decision can not be reversed.
Stated that they visit the first Gryshcan, a retired general, since the appointment of the American President, Barack Obama, his special envoy to Sudan.
Sudan: resolution of criminal ink on paper
In a related context, a Sudanese official said that the recent visits by the Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir, for a number of neighboring countries, and participation in the Doha summit stresses that the decision of the Criminal Court had become "a dead letter."
The Bona Malwal, an adviser to Sudanese President Bashir's foreign visits the President of the Republic that the decision of the International Criminal not have any impact on the process of political life in the country, according to the website of the television Sudan.
It is noted that the visit of Sudanese President concluded in Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday last, the fifth trip outside the country since the issuance of the note by the Fourth Criminal Court in March last, where he had visited all of Eritrea, Egypt, Libya and Qatar.
Threatened and the International Criminal Court prosecutor, Luis Ocampo, the Sudanese President could be arrested as soon as he left the land of Sudan and the flight in international airspace.
