EU Springs Into Action, Considers Toothless Sanctions

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Monday, January 22, 2007

EU Springs Into Action, Considers Toothless Sanctions

The EU is breaking out the big guns in their arsenal—strongly worded warnings that they might have to consider holding meetings to discuss the possibility of sanctions. Although they don’t actually use the word “sanctions.” EU threatens Sudan with sanctions over Darfur.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union threatened Sudan with sanctions on Monday if it refused to allow U.N. peacekeepers into war-torn Darfur, but rights groups and analysts said the warning was not enough to stop the killings.

Raising strong concerns about the “intolerable” situation in Sudan’s remote west, EU foreign ministers urged other donors to provide funding for the struggling African Union mission there, while the EU executive said it had no more cash to support it.

Experts estimate 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million driven from their homes during the 4-year-old conflict Washington calls genocide, a charge Sudan denies.

An ill-equipped African Union force has failed to stem the violence and protect aid workers. EU foreign ministers said Khartoum should accept a U.N. plan for a hybrid African Union- United Nations force in Darfur.

“The (EU) Council expresses its readiness to consider further measures notably in the U.N. framework against any party which obstructs its implementation,” the ministers said in a joint statement diplomats said was a reference to sanctions.

Whew. That’s telling ’em.

Meanwhile, the killing will continue.
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