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UN:
POLITICAL NEGOTIATIONS THE ONLY WAY TO RESOLVE DARFUR CRISIS, SUDAN TELLS
UN: 03/10/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 03 October 2007 -
The only way to end the Darfur conflict is
through political negotiations, Sudan's Foreign Minister told the General
Assembly today, pledging his Government’s full support of peace talks later
this month and calling on all of Darfur’s many rebel groups to end hostilities
and participate.
Speaking
during the last day of the annual high-level debate, Lam Akol noted that his
Government has already declared a unilateral ceasefire that will start with the
peace talks, scheduled for 27 October in neighbouring Libya.
“We
expect the armed factions to reciprocate so that a permanent and verifiable
ceasefire is arrived at with the beginning of the talks,” he said. “We also
call on the international community to take firm measures against those who
refuse to participate in or obstruct the peace talks.”
Mr. Akol
called on the countries that host some of the leaders of Darfur’s rebel groups
to pressure them to attend the Libya peace talks.
The
talks, which are being convened by the UN and African Union envoys for Darfur,
Jan Eliasson and Salim Ahmed Salim, are designed to end the conflict that has
raged in the Sudanese region since 2003.
More
than 200,000 people have been killed and another 2.2 million forced to flee
their homes because of fighting between rebels, Government forces and allied
Janjaweed militias. Some 4 million Darfurians now depend on humanitarian aid.
Earlier
this year the Security Council authorized the creation of a hybrid UN-AU
peacekeeping force to be known as UNAMID to try to quell the violence. The
operation is scheduled to take over from the existing AU mission by the start of
next year.
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