Monday, July 2, 2007

Darfur update


The international community has made important strides toward defusing the four-year-old crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.

He said addressing the political and ethnic violence in Darfur, a remote region bordering Chad, was "the highest priority agenda" for him and his team.

"During the last six months, we have made slow but credible and considerable progress in helping resolve this Darfur situation," he told a news conference in Geneva.

Ban also said, "The people in Darfur have suffered too much and the international community has waited too long. It is now high time for us to take necessary action, and I hope the Sudanese government will implement faithfully the commitment they have made."

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