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The UN Security Council is holding an open briefing on Sudan. Denmark’s Foreign Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, is chairing it as Denmark holds the Council rotating presidency in August. During the briefing, @UNReliefChief briefing the council. These meetings often good at describing the problem with a laundry list of very depressing numbers of human suffering and lack of funding, both of which are very real. But Fletcher decided to end his remarks to the Council differently this time. This is what he said: "I usually end these briefings with three asks: uphold international humanitarian law, fund the response, and help end the conflict. But today I won’t because this Council has heard those asks again and again. Instead, the ask is that we not have another meeting where the Council simply describes the problem. Sudan does not suffer from a lack of analysis. It suffers from a lack of action. The people of Sudan need food, water and medicine. Yet the world sends drones, weapons and mercenaries. The people of Sudan need sustained, courageous diplomacy. Yet the world is too often indifferent and distracted. The people of Sudan need peace and dignity. Yet others use Sudan's land and people as pieces in a regional struggle for power, gold and pride. This Council is not powerless. The international community is not powerless. The tragedy of Sudan is not that we do not know what to do. It is that we have not yet found the will to do it."