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| U.N. Troops Awaited to Confirm Sudan-S. Sudan Pullout |
| 2013-04-24 |
| [An Nahar] Verification of a Sudan and South Sudan pullout from a border buffer zone has to await the arrival of more than 1,000 United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aim of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... peacekeepers, a U.N. commander said in documents released Tuesday. The two countries, which battled on their undemarcated frontier a year ago, had an April 5 deadline to withdraw forces from the Safe Demilitarized Border Zone dividing them. "Until ground verification is carried out, no definite findings can be reached about the redeployment of forces from both sides," area force commander General Yohannes Tesfamariam reported to a meeting of the two countries on Monday and Tuesday in Æthiopia. The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... released a copy of Tesfamariam's briefing. He said land patrols can take place once the U.N. Security Council authorizes an additional 1,126 peacekeepers to protect a group of border monitors from Sudan, South Sudan and the U.N.. |
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