Nancy Walsh's Blog - December 2008
Thursdays conference call with Mira Patel, Hillary Clinton's assistant on Foriegn Affairs, went very well. Ms. Patel was very receptive to our call and we spoke about the following:
Our list of "asks":
-A mention of Darfur in Ms. Clinton's opening remarks and commitment to Darfur as a top policy concern
-A high-level administration official in charge of Darfur/Sudan policy, committed to work full-time on the peace process
-Effective peace-keeping which includes a robust ground force with a competent lead nation and clear command structure and not allowing Khartoum to dictate terms of deployment
-Moving forward with the indictment of President Bashir, refusal to invoke Article 16, further indictments
-A practical and escalating menu of multilateral sanctions
-A ban on offensive military flights and enforcement of that ban
-Monitoring and enforcement of the ban on sale of ALL military weapons to Khartoum
-A press conference in the first hundred days of the administration to address Darfur
-Continuing to refer to Darfur as a genocide
Hillary Clinton has an A+ Darfur Score, http://www.darfurscores.org/grades/new%20york and is our ally in ending the genocide in Darfur.
Our list of "asks":
-A mention of Darfur in Ms. Clinton's opening remarks and commitment to Darfur as a top policy concern
-A high-level administration official in charge of Darfur/Sudan policy, committed to work full-time on the peace process
-Effective peace-keeping which includes a robust ground force with a competent lead nation and clear command structure and not allowing Khartoum to dictate terms of deployment
-Moving forward with the indictment of President Bashir, refusal to invoke Article 16, further indictments
-A practical and escalating menu of multilateral sanctions
-A ban on offensive military flights and enforcement of that ban
-Monitoring and enforcement of the ban on sale of ALL military weapons to Khartoum
-A press conference in the first hundred days of the administration to address Darfur
-Continuing to refer to Darfur as a genocide
Hillary Clinton has an A+ Darfur Score, http://www.darfurscores.org/grades/new%20york and is our ally in ending the genocide in Darfur.
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