Sudan does not welcome UN troops
Sudan-UN, Politics, 6/7/2006

The Los Angeles Times reported today citing an official that Sudan's president Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Tuesday "told ambassadors and deputies representing the (UN Security Council) council's 15 members that he was not convinced, wary that opening the door to more peacekeepers and aid workers was an invitation to occupation of his country."

The report added that Bashir "declared that he didn't want Sudan to become another Iraq at the mercy of foreign troops he couldn't dismiss, diplomats who attended the meeting said."

The Los Angeles Times report noted an editorial in the Sudanese newspaper Rayal Shaab on Monday called the council mission "'a visit from an unwelcome guest.' Ordinary Sudanese too are suspicious of the UN... 'We are afraid because of what happened to Iraq and Vietnam before. They are coming because the US and other big countries want something from Sudan, like our oil. What are they really after?'"

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