Följetong…

På tal om moraliska haverier.

Från rapporten ”Oil and conflict: Lundin Petroleum’s experience in Sudan”:

As a principle, Lundin refrains from getting involved in the political affairs of a country; it believes that it cannot make a meaningful contribution in this sphere and prefers to restrict itself to its commercial mission. The situation it encountered in Sudan, however, was exceptional, and the company needed to make clear to the protagonists in the conflict that it saw peace as the best means to ensure sustainable oil operations. In this endeavour it relied on the skills and competence of Carl Bildt, a member of Lundin Petroleum’s Board of Directors, whose experience as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Balkans in 1999–2001 was particularly relevant. In a series of trips to Brussels, Cairo, Khartoum, Nairobi and Washington, Bildt met with high-level representatives of the Sudanese Government, including the President, his peace adviser, the Minister of Energy and Mining, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and the main representative of the Nuer community (later deputy chairman of the SPLA), as well as with representatives of the key nations acting as peace mediators, such as Kenya, Norway, the UK and the USA. Bildt delivered the same message to all: oil represented an incentive for peace in so far as oil activities could not be pursued in a war context. He also underlined how oil provided the material basis for a sustainable peace. The company’s repeated suspensions of activities were a proof that oil activities could not flourish in a conflict situation, and experience in various other countries demonstrated that a conflict of this nature could not be resolved militarily. In Bildt’s view, the parties had to determine for themselves their minimum, not maximum, requirements for the achievement of peace. The mediators’ role was to help the parties achieve this compromise by offering them support, in the form of international monitoring and monetary assistance for purposes of reconstruction.

Så enligt Lundin Petroleum, så var Bildts roll att försöka medla fred, och visa hur kontraproduktiv konflikten i landet var. Hur sanningsenlig den bilden är tänker jag inte ge mig på att analysera, men det borde någon på Expressen göra om de vill återfå någon slags trovärdighet.

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