Sudan: Bashir Takes Pride in Country's Defiance of UN Resolutions

13 October 2011

Khartoum — Sudan's president Omer Al-Bashir has bragged about his country's ability to emulate Israel in breaking resolutions of the UN Security Council (UNSC), vowing to expel those who attempt to implement the latest UNSC's resolutions on Darfur's peacekeeping mission.

Al-Bashir, who was addressing a conference of the youth sector of his ruling National Congress Party (NCP) on Thursday, said that Sudan had successfully defied the UNSC's resolution number 2003 to amend the mandate of the UN-AU Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) as well as resolution number 1706 to expand the mandate of the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) to include deployment in Darfur.

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