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UN
AND SUDANESE GOVERNMENT ISSUES JOINT STATEMENT ON IMPORTANCE OF DEPLOYING
THE AFRICAN UNION-UN MISSION IN DARFUR AND INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT:
01/12/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 10 December 2007 --
On Saturday representatives of the UN and the Sudanese Government issued a joint
statement that stressed the importance of deploying the African Union-UN Mission
in Darfur (UNAMID) and urged international support for this effort.
Both
delegations “recognized that UNAMID would play a critical role in bringing
peace and stability to Darfur” and agreed on the importance of setting up the
force, according to the statement released in Lisbon following a meeting in the
margins of the European Union-AU summit.
Attending
the summit was a high-level UN delegation headed by Deputy Secretary-General
Asha-Rose Migiro and including the UN High Representative for Least Developed
Countries, Landlocked Countries and Small Island Developing States, Cheick Sidi
Diarra, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Edmond Mulet and
Deputy Chef de Cabinet Kim Won-Soo.
Participants
provided clarification “in some areas and identified a number of other areas
where technical clarity was required to ensure that effective preparations for
and deployment of the AU-UN Mission could continue.”
The UN
and Khartoum agreed on the importance of addressing and resolving these issues
“transparently, expeditiously and in the appropriate forum, as part of their
collaboration regarding deployment of UNAMID.”
Noting
critical gaps in the force capabilities, particularly military aviation, the
statement called on the international community to provide the necessary
equipment.
“The
Government of Sudan and the United Nations emphasized their commitment to the
ongoing and intensive technical effort which would be required for the timely
deployment of UNAMID,” they said.
UNAMID
is due to take over next month from the existing but under-resourced AU mission
(known as AMIS) trying to quell the fighting in Darfur between rebels,
Government forces and allied militias that has left at least 200,000 people dead
and more than 2.2 million others displaced since 2003.
But the
hybrid force lacks offers for crucial force units. It is short one heavy and one
medium transport unit, three military utility aviation units and one light
helicopter unit, while an earlier pledge for one reconnaissance company has been
withdrawn.
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