19 April 2009

US Senator John Kerry said Thursday that Sudan has agreed to allow some aid back ‎into Darfur, more than a month after the Sudanese president expelled over a dozen aid ‎groups from the region.‎

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir expelled 13 international aid groups and three ‎local ones after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him on ‎charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.‎

A two-day Arab summit held in Doha, Qatar two weeks ago made it rather clear that ‎it strongly supported the Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and totally ‎rejected an international arrest warrant issued against him by the International ‎Criminal Court.‎

Kerry called upon rebels in war-torn Darfur to engage in peace talks with the ‎government authority is rather realistic.‎

Al-Qathafi's told the African foreign ministers who gathered in Tripoli the union ‎authority can decided on which of the African elements that can be integrated within ‎one year, five years or twenty years.

He said Africans do not need to complicate the ‎process. The institutions that can be established now have are already there.‎
‎"We cannot create the United States of Africa without a mechanism which works ‎every day to reach this goal," he insisted.‎

‎"We should end the existing chaos and disorder, create a single union authority and ‎get rid of all the rest," he added.‎

Gaddafi advanced a concrete and practical proposal to the AU Executive Council ‎calling for the existing AU Executive Council to appoint a head secretary to be in ‎charge of the continent's foreign affairs. ‎

The AU's economic development program as represented by the New Partnership for ‎Africa's Development, NEPAD, to oversee foreign trade of the whole African ‎continent. While the head of the AU's Peace and Security Council would run the ‎continent's defense matters. ‎

Al-Qaddafi warned the AU Executive Council that the African masses were fed up ‎with the current status quo in the continent. ‎

‎"The African masses want to freely move across the African continent which ‎represents their large home. Every African has the right to live and work in any part ‎of the continent," he said. ‎

‎"The masses are accusing us and say the politicians don't feel and recognize the ‎demands of the African citizen… rebellions and coups d' etat have returned anew to ‎the Africa as a result of the politicians’ failure in establishing African unity," Al-‎Qaddafi added.‎

A large number of participating African officials expressed their support of Gaddafi's ‎plan which represents a sensible and logical as well as practical steps to effectively ‎create a union authority in Africa at last.