They have been the primary mover behind Security Council resolutions, and they are trying to promote and help the African Union to increase its support.
Already, tests carried out with a prototype at the Palomar Observatory in California have achieved astrometric resolutions of 100 millionths of an arcsecond, and the improved atmospheric conditions in Hawaii will increase this by a factor of three.
He spent many frustrating days trying to push for UN Security Council resolutions on Darfur and says there's still a lot of work to be done to increase the number of African Union monitors there.
That causes problems because the military often was planning to increase or decrease specific accounts in the new year, and without special legislative action such resolutions typically prohibit shifting funds between major accounts.