Britain, the U.S. and other mostly Western countries condemned abuses by Sudan's warring factions and called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to step up monitoring of the conflict at an emergency meeting of the body on Thursday.
But many states voiced opposition to any council action, with Sudan's ambassador describing the conflict as an internal affair and calling for "African solutions for African problems".
A Thursday vote on the motion, which would give the U.N.'s Sudan expert more powers to monitor abuses and which has already been watered down to garner more support, is set to be tight, Western diplomats said. "There must be accountability for the horrific events taking place," Britain's Minister of State for Development and Africa Andrew Mitchell told the council by video link.
China criticised the meeting while Pakistan's envoy said it "risks further exacerbating" the situation. Sudan's ambassador Hassan Hamid Hassan poured scorn on the whole session.
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