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UN: UN,
SUDAN AGREE TO TALKS TO IMPROVE IMPLEMENTATION OF PEACE DEAL IN SOUTH:
21/6/2007 (MaximsNews.com,
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June 2007 –
The United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS)
and the Sudanese Government will hold high-level consultations shortly on how to
better implement the comprehensive peace agreement from 2005 that ended the
country’s protracted civil war between north and south.
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The peacekeeping
mission and the Government agreed to hold the talks after a meeting on
Saturday between the Secretary-General’s Acting Special Representative for
Sudan Tayé-Brook Zerihoun and Idris AbdelGadir, the State Minister to the
Sudanese Presidency.
The consultations
“will be held in the near future,” UNMIS
reported today, adding that they would focus on how to make the peace deal
more effective. Under that accord, which ended a 21-year civil war, the
rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) was brought into a
new Government of National Unity.
UNMIS said it is
continuing its monitoring and verification duties under the peace agreement,
although both the Sudanese armed forces and the SPLA have restricted access
to the north and south of the town of Abyei.
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In Juba,
the Mission is also continuing to promote reconciliation between the Mundari and
Bari communities, and has begun an assessment to see whether some Mundari
communities can be resettled to the Tali and Terekeka areas.
Meanwhile,
in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, where a separate conflict has raged since
2003, UNMIS reported that an unknown armed man yesterday shot at a vehicle in
South Darfur hired by an international non-governmental organization (NGO).
In West
Darfur, two men stopped an international NGO convoy of two vehicles with five
staff members, and robbed them of personal effects and communication equipment.
More
than 200,000 people have been killed and at least 2 million others displaced
from their homes in Darfur since rebel groups began clashing with Government
forces and allied Janjaweed militias.
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