Darfur
NEW YORK, March 24, 2010/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General.
The Joint Special Representative for the UN-African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID), Ibrahim Gambari, was in Paris this weekend for peace consultations with Abdul Wahid Mohammed Al-Nour, the leader of a key splinter group of the Sudanese Liberation Army, a one-time rebel alliance fighting Sudanese Government forces in Darfur.
According to the UN-African Union mission, Gambari encouraged Al-Nour and his alliance to join the peace process. He also asked for greater cooperation on the ground between Al-Nour’s forces and the UN-African Union peacekeepers. Gambari urged Al-Nour to help ease humanitarian agencies’ access to those in need. Gambari also met with high-level French Government officials, including the top diplomatic UN and African affairs advisers to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
On Sunday, Gambari spoke at the International Donors’ Conference for the Development and Reconstruction of Darfur, which was held in Cairo.
SOURCE
United Nations – Office of the Spokesperson of the Secretary-General
