COOPERATION CRUCIAL TO DEPLOYMENT OF BLUE HELMETS TO DARFUR – UN
New York, Jul 13 2009 5:10PM
The United Nations, the African Union and the Sudanese Government have met again to discuss the continuing deployment and recruitment of troops and other staff to the joint AU-UN peacekeeping mission in the war-torn Darfur region.
Representatives from the UN, the AU and the Government gathered yesterday in Khartoum for the sixth meeting of the Tripartite Mechanism to discuss deployment issues and the way forward for the mission, which is known as <"http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unamid/index.html">UNAMID.
The participants stressed that partnership and cooperation are essential to ensure the continued deployment of troops, noting that UNAMID has recently reached almost 69 per cent of the mandated strength of its force deployment.
Participants also voiced their determination to remove all remaining impediments to deployment, and to help all Sudanese, especially Darfurians, who have been affected by war, displacement and insecurity.
Other issues discussed included air operations, approvals for visas into Sudan, procurement and the recruitment of national staff members, who comprise two-thirds of UNAMID's civilian personnel.
The seventh Tripartite Mechanism meeting will be held in New York in September on the margins of the General Assembly's annual high-level debate.
UNAMID was established by the Security Council in 2007 to protect civilians in Darfur, where an estimated 300,000 people have been killed and another 2.7 million forced from their homes since violence erupted in 2003, pitting rebels against Government forces and their allied Janjaweed militiamen.
Jul 13 2009 5:10PM
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New York, Jul 13 2009 5:10PM
The United Nations, the African Union and the Sudanese Government have met again to discuss the continuing deployment and recruitment of troops and other staff to the joint AU-UN peacekeeping mission in the war-torn Darfur region.
Representatives from the UN, the AU and the Government gathered yesterday in Khartoum for the sixth meeting of the Tripartite Mechanism to discuss deployment issues and the way forward for the mission, which is known as <"http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unamid/index.html">UNAMID.
The participants stressed that partnership and cooperation are essential to ensure the continued deployment of troops, noting that UNAMID has recently reached almost 69 per cent of the mandated strength of its force deployment.
Participants also voiced their determination to remove all remaining impediments to deployment, and to help all Sudanese, especially Darfurians, who have been affected by war, displacement and insecurity.
Other issues discussed included air operations, approvals for visas into Sudan, procurement and the recruitment of national staff members, who comprise two-thirds of UNAMID's civilian personnel.
The seventh Tripartite Mechanism meeting will be held in New York in September on the margins of the General Assembly's annual high-level debate.
UNAMID was established by the Security Council in 2007 to protect civilians in Darfur, where an estimated 300,000 people have been killed and another 2.7 million forced from their homes since violence erupted in 2003, pitting rebels against Government forces and their allied Janjaweed militiamen.
Jul 13 2009 5:10PM
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