The Arab League - useless even for Arabs From the Arab League Website. http://www.arableagueonline.org/arableague/index_en.jsp
Their position on the genocide taking place in Darfur, the Sudan
Secretary general Amre Moussa of the Arab League received Sudanese Minister of Islamic Affairs Dr. Essam Al Basheer.
Following the meeting, Secretary General Moussa told the reporters that the meeting basically tackled the latest developments in Sudan and the situation in the Arab world in general with a focus on establishing a serious global dialogue in order to reach an international situation that is much stable, cooperative and understanding.
In his statements, Secretary General Moussa also stressed the importance of giving the Sudanese government a sufficient timeframe to implement the agreement held with the UN Secretary General with the aim to achieve stability in the region of Darfoor and reach the desired outcome. Secretary General Moussa further said the Darfoor issue can not be solved through the imposition of sanctions on the Sudanese government, pointing out the importance of implementing the agreements held in N?djamena and with the UN.
The Arab League is an organization of Arab States the purpose of which has always escaped me. Their prime issue has always seemed to be Israel and yet they have never, actually contributed anything to the peace process and are at most a cheerleader for anti-Israel states and organizations.
The gobbledygook quoted above, tranlated into normal english, seems to say they will do nothing real to help in darfu, The Sudan. In response to the Iraqi Prime Minister Alawi's call for Muslin troops to help fight the iraqi insurgency, I see nothing on the website, but I heard a BBC interview of the Arab League representative to London. (Can't remember his name, impossible to take notes in the car) He produced more gobbledygook which, again translated into normal English, sounded like a no. It is clear the Arab States as a whole will do nothing about any issues of human interest and are content to watch on the sidelines as a genocide take place and an insurgency grow increasingly more violent.
Some of the individual states such as Oman and Saudi Arabia have sent relatively small amounts of money to the Sudanese government for humanitarian aid. At the same time the U.N. is trying to get the Sudanese government to reign in the militia which is murdering people in the Darfur region. We don't know if the government is in league with the militia and so far efforts to get them to disarm that militia have been ignored. Sanctions are being discussed. One wonders whether that token amount of money, 10 million from Oman,a token really, (the only published amount I could find) will result in any actual help for the enormous number of displaced persons.
Mel
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