Elders ask EU to support South Sudan neurope.eu 19/7/2012 – A group of elder statesmen, former world leaders dedicated to human rights, visited Brussels to brief top officials on the situation in the new nation of South Sudan and to press for continued support, saying they were “cautiously optimistic” about prospects for peace. The group, known as the Elders, uses their personal reputations to gain access to the highest levels of politics and use their influence as “honest brokers” to try to resolve conflict and address inequality. The African nations are in a dispute over oil transit deals and South Sudan stopped the movement of oil which has had a disastrous effect on both nations’ economies. In Brussels, Mary Robinson, former Irish President and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Martti Ahtsaari former Finnish President and Nobel Peace Prize winner, spoke about the conflict between Sudan and its new neighbor to New Europe. Mary Robinson explained, “The Elders have been concerned since we were established in 2007, when we visited Darfur, but after independence we were concerned that it wasn’t working well and relations had broken down.”
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