Sudanese Ambassador reacts to sanctions by US

Описание: (31 May 2007)
1. Wide shot of news conference with Sudanese Ambassador to the US, John Ukec Lueth Ukec
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Ukec Lueth Ukec, Sudanese Ambassador to the US:
"His Excellency, the President of the United States, George W. Bush came up with a statement of putting more sanctions on my country. I want to say that if that sanctions are targeting my country, it is a wrong recipe. It is a wrong recipe because the economic sanctions are going to actually make things worse for the people of Sudan in general and the people of Darfur in particular."
3. Cutaway of audience at press conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Ukec Lueth Ukec, Sudanese Ambassador to the US:
"What type of sanctions are they putting on the rebels? They have done nothing and have crippled the government of Sudan. We have control over the people. We have the custody of the people of Sudan. We must feed them. We must give them everything. And now you are saying, you are tying our hands so that our people are starved, and then there is ruin, and then there is all turmoil in Sudan. That is not wisdom."
5. Cutaway of audience at news conference
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Ukec Lueth Ukec, Sudanese Ambassador to the US:
"I am very worried about the fact that only the United States is the only country saying that what is happening in Darfur is a genocide. All African countries have not. The UN have not done, said the same thing. It is always a disregard of other opinions. If I am a human person and I'm a human being, I will see what are the ideas of other people too. The African countries, not a single country said that what is going on in Sudan is a genocide. The UN has not come up with that idea."
7. Wide shot of room with press conference
STORYLINE:
Sudan's ambassador to Washington said on Wednesday that sanctions ordered by US President George W. Bush threaten to unravel peace agreements and break his country apart.
Ambassador John Ukec Lueth Ukec said the sanctions would end up hurting ordinary people rather than government officials.
"I want to say that if that sanctions are targeting my country, it is a wrong recipe," said Ukec. "It is a wrong recipe because the economic sanctions are going to actually make things worse for the people of Sudan in general and the people of Darfur in particular."
Bush ordered the sanctions on Tuesday to pressure President Omar al-Bashir's government to stop aggravating the violence in Sudan's vast Darfur region on the Chad border.
The sanctions target government-run companies involved in Sudan's oil industry, and three individuals, including a rebel leader suspected of being involved in the Darfur bloodshed.
Ukec contended in a news conference that the sanctions would affect the supply and distribution of basic necessities and lead to more suffering.
He says his government is not to blame for the situation in Darfur.
He instead blames the black African Muslim rebels in a 4-year-old fight for autonomy in region against militia
allegedly supported by the mainly ethnic Arab central government.
"What type of sanctions are they putting on the rebels?" asked Ukec.
"They (the Bush Administration) have done nothing and have crippled the government of Sudan. We have control over the people. We have the custody of the people of Sudan. We must feed them. We must give them everything. And now you are saying, you are tying our hands so that our people are starved, and then there is ruin, and then there is all turmoil in Sudan. That is not wisdom."
The government denies that.
The fighting in Darfur has displaced 2.5 (m) million people.

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