Sudan pledges to set up safe areas for civilians in troubled Darfur
Published:
7 August 2004 y., Saturday
UN spokesman Fred Eckhard said on Friday that the Sudanese government has finalized an agreement it reached Wednesday with the United Nations on steps to disarm in the next 30 days the Arab militia accused of cruelly attacking black Africans in the troubled western Darfur region.
Eckhard told reporters that the agreement will be made public after it is officially signed on Monday by Jan Pronk, UN special representative for Sudan, and Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail.
The deal, struck on Wednesday night by Pronk and Ismail, also commits Khartoum to improving security in and around the camps for the estimated 1.2 million internally displaced people in Darfur. Eckhard said the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is planning to deploy eight observers to Darfur over the next few days to monitor the disarmament process.
Earlier in the day, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said that Egypt welcomes a Sudan-UN agreement on steps to be taken to solve the Darfur crisis.
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