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"Mr President, I have been listening to my colleagues and the representative of the Council and what they said gives me an indefinable feeling. I have a feeling that they are preaching to the converted. I have not yet heard anyone with whom I disagree, either from the Council or among my colleagues, and I have to conclude that we are all truly at our wits’ end over the situation in Sudan and South Sudan.
Obviously, I welcome the fact that the UN Security Council has unanimously approved the road map for peace between Sudan and South Sudan and the fact that South Sudan has now promised to withdraw its troops from Abyei. But what good will this do us at the moment?
I fear that we are going to end up in a lengthy process that we could perhaps compare to that existing between Eritrea and Ethiopia: a border conflict that flares up time and time again and in which both countries – allow me to compare Eritrea to South Sudan here and Ethiopia to Sudan, all inadequacies of this comparison aside – are using the border dispute as an excuse to do nothing about health care for their own people, about social services, famine, education or about anything that their people need so desperately.
The rainy season is coming to South Sudan and, as a result, 60% of the country will become impenetrable. The roads will cease to be passable and, during that period, food stocks for the people will have to be sufficient. We can talk about the road map, we can talk about a lengthy process, but how do we manage to get some food out to these people right away?
Another sign that makes me think that South Sudan is not ready for the job of providing a decent future for its own people is the fact that it has stopped selling oil. I can well understand the underlying reason, but if you allow your money to dry up and if you are not able to do your own shopping any more, what does that say about you? What becomes more important for you then? Your people that need to be fed or the border dispute with Sudan? It seems to me that our task in this is to ensure that South Sudan starts behaving decently again and that it finds a market for its oil."@en1
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