The
resolution, however, drew severe rebukes from international aid
organizations and Sudanese refugees, describing it as “weak”.
International
aid agency Oxfam damned the resolution as “weak” and
“dithering”.
“Instead
of responding to the ongoing crisis in Darfur with concrete action,
the Security Council could only agree to 'monitor compliance' with
previous resolutions,” Oxfam said in a statement.
“For
the people of Darfur, 'monitoring compliance' has become UN speak for
more death and suffering,” the statement added.
The
Human Rights Watch (HRW) also said the UN Security council “appears
to have watered down its previous threats to hold the Khartoum
government accountable for the continuing human rights abuses in
Darfur”.
The
New York-based group also lamented that the text weakened the threat
of possible future international action against Khartoum.
“We
fear that the government of Sudan will take this resolution as a blank
cheque to continue its persecution of the civilian population in
Darfur,” HRW's Sudan researcher Jereman Rone said.
A
few dozen Sudanese refugees including children also protested outside
the UN compound in Nairobi Friday against the resolution, branding it
“weak” and fails to halt what they branded “human rights
violations in Darfur”.
“That
was a terribly weak resolution,” protested John Lasu, one of the
demonstrators, according to AFP.
“It
will do nothing to make Khartoum heed the international cry to stop
fighting in Darfur,” Lasu added.
