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SECRETARY-GENERAL
URGES WORLD TO STEP UP SUPPORT FOR DARFUR
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UNITED
NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 08
April 2008 -(Originally
published 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.
Meanwhile,
Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Edmond Mulet briefed the
Security Council on some of the latest developments in preparing the deployment
of UNAMID, which has been hampered in part by a series of obstacles raised by
the Sudanese Government.
Mr.
Mulet told reporters later that some mission personnel are already in place in
Darfur as UNAMID gets ready to take over on 1 January next year from the
existing but under-resourced AU mission known as AMIS.
He said
that while the UN has reached agreement with the Government on some technical
issues relating to the provision of land and equipment, more concessions are
needed so that UNAMID can fully deploy. Further consultations between the world
body and Khartoum are expected over the next week.
The
Government has previously not made clear it supports the presence of some
non-African units in UNAMID, and Mr. Mulet said the UN is still waiting for an
answer on that question.
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