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UN:
SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES WORLD TO STEP UP SUPPORT FOR DARFUR PEACEKEEPING
FORCE: 13/12/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 13 December 2007 -- Noting
that this is a “critical point” regarding the deployment of an African
Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in the war-ravaged Darfur region of
Sudan, Secretary-General appealed for the world to step up its support for the
mission.
To
deploy the force as soon as possible, “this requires capabilities on the
ground – capabilities which we need UN Member States to provide, but which is
still dangerously lacking,” he said in a message to the three-day World Summit
of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Rome.
Most
strikingly, Mr. Ban pointed out, is the lack of helicopters. “In the past
weeks and months, I have contacted, personally, every possible contributor of
helicopters – in the Americas, in Europe, in Asia. And yet, not one helicopter
has been made available yet.”
He urged
governments – in regions such as Europe, Asia and the Americas where thousands
of different types of military helicopters exist – to bolster their support
for the AU-UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).
In his
message, the Secretary-General also congratulated United States actors George
Clooney and Don Cheadle, who both received the 2007 Peace Summit Award for their
efforts to raise awareness about the humanitarian suffering in Darfur.
Earlier
this week, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former US
Vice-President Al Gore accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in
Oslo, Norway.
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