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NATO chief calls for strategic partnership between NATO and EU on Sudan

We apparently use the African Union for spreading pseudo democracies in Africa in the same manner we use the HT in Asia. The African Union from their mission looks to be ours. The African Union has now asked NATO another organization we control to help in Sudan. Slick, we are finally in Sudan and no one will be the wiser.

"The African Union is very much on the lead, that way it should stay. It is an African mission but NATO will assist the AU in the fulfillment of this mission," De Hoop Scheffer told journalists after meeting Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa.

And with democratic reform in Africa a top priority for the current U.S. administration, Washington support for the new African Union will likely increase as the organization works to curb the influence of dictators in its midst.http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:6NfF5ccOt_cJ:www.summitreports.com/africanunion/us.htm+african+un....

Background:

The recent deaths of 30,000 Sudanese are but a subchapter in a conflict that has been raging for more than two decades, and which according to modest estimates has taken the lives of more than 1.2 million people.
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It is only now that Sudan has become a base for Chinese oil operations that we are ‘concerned’ about the Sudanese.

China uses Sudan not only for their oil; Sudan is also the base for Chinese oil operations elsewhere in Africa. And it appears China is willing to trade weapons for oil to Sudan’s radical Islamist government among others.

"China has sought energy cooperation with countries of concern to the United States, including Iran and Sudan, which are inaccessible by U.S. and other western firms. Some analysts have voiced suspicions that China may have offered WMD-related transfers as a component of some of its energy deals," noted the Commission.
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The main investor in the Sudanese oil industry is the China National Petroleum Company, and China is Sudan’s biggest trading partner overall.[2] It has been alleged that there are Chinese soldiers in Sudan protecting Chinese oil interests there, and that these troops have engaged in skirmishes with the rebels.[3] Moreover, while there are numerous foreign oil companies present in Sudan, it is precisely in Southern Darfur that the Chinese National Petroleum Company has its concessions. USAID, the American humanitarian agency, has helpfully provided a map of Sudan showing precisely where the oil concessions are. http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/sudan/map_oil.pdf)
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Because Sudan is as a ‘country of concern’ along with Iran the United States can only watch as other countries avail themselves of oil and gas from these two large producers. A predicament the United States will attempt to remedy by various means.

-Am

NATO chief calls for strategic partnership between NATO and EU on Sudan
AFP
Jun 1, 2005, 11:37


LJUBLJANA: Latest developments in Sudan's western region of Darfur underline the need for a "genuine strategic partnership" between NATO and the European Union, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Tuesday.
"The European Union is a genuine security actor, there is no question about it. This is about making the Union a stronger partner, not a counterweight," De Hoop Scheffer told legislators meeting in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana at a spring session of NATO's Parliamentary Assembly (PA).

De Hoop Scheffer said he was pleased to have seen in Europe a "greater realism about the challenges that are involved in playing a sustained, meaningful security role, and greater awareness of what NATO already offers."

He made the remarks commenting on the situation in Darfur and a call sent to the European Union and NATO by the African Union (AU) for their peacekeeping mission in Sudan's troubled region.

"NATO will answer the call," and provide logistical support to the African Union peace mission," De Hoop Scheffer said and added that would mean "participating in air-lifts, transporting extra forces the African Union needs in Darfur from the countries where they come from, all from Africa."

He added "NATO is not going to put combat troops on the ground in Darfur but provide other forms of support."

"The African Union is very much on the lead, that way it should stay. It is an African mission but NATO will assist the AU in the fulfillment of this mission," De Hoop Scheffer told journalists after meeting Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa.

At its plenary session Tuesday, NATO's Parliamentary Assembly discussed the situation in Darfur and adopted a declaration backing the international community's efforts to achieve peace in the Sudanese region.

"The PA encourages the European Union and NATO to work together in a spirit of cooperation and complementarity to provide the requisite logistical and financial support in areas such as strategic airlift, training in command and control, in operations planning," the PA statement said.

The two-year-old conflict in Darfur between Khartoum, government-backed militias and two rebel groups, has killed between 180,000 and 300,000 people and displaced more than two million and is considered to be one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

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