Sudan / End of the African Union-United Nations Joint Special Representative for Darfur mission
EL FASHER (DARFUR), Sudan, August 27, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General.
Rodolphe Adada is marking the end of his tenure as the African Union-United Nations Joint Special Representative for Darfur by making a farewell tour to South and West Darfur. His tour of duty ends on 31 August.
Adada visited Nyala on Monday and paid a courtesy call to the Deputy Wali (Governor) of South Darfur. He expressed his gratitude to the state government for the assistance and the good relations and cooperation it had maintained with the mission in South Darfur. Adada referred to the decreased level of violence in Darfur and said that the deployment of the UN-African Union mission (UNAMID) has now reached 75 per cent. “As the deployment increases, so does assistance to the people of Darfur,” he said. We have a full press release upstairs.
Today, he met with UNAMID staff in El Fasher and expressed satisfaction over the way the mission has faced challenges and overcome problems.
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United Nations – Office of the Spokesperson of the Secretary-General
