A typically robust response from the UN to the letter from Sudan warning Arab and African nations not to contribute to any peacekeeping force:
The president of the Security Council for October, Japanese Ambassador Kenzo Oshima, said some members felt “the language [in the letter] was inappropriate and offensive”.
Mr Oshima said a resolution condemning the letter had been considered, but it was decided to concentrate on how to restore peace in the troubled region….
Britain’s ambassador to the UN, Emyr Jones Parry, said the letter was “unacceptable”, but that it would be best to ignore it.
“In my view… the best thing one can do with it is to actually just quietly assume it hadn’t been sent,” he told the BBC.
The council said it was seeking “clarification” of the letter from Sudan’s UN ambassador.
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