Wednesday, December 20, 2006

UN envoy kicks off Sudan mission

UN envoy kicks off Sudan mission

Khartoum - "Ahmadou Ould Abdallah is meeting Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ali Karti and is due to meet President Omar al-Beshir later today," spokesperson Ali al-Sadek has said.Ould Abdallah, a Mauritanian UN official appointed by outgoing Secretary General Kofi Annan to negotiate with Khartoum, arrived in the Sudanese capital early on Wednesday.The UN under secretary general is expected to coordinate a three-phase UN plan to bolster the African Union contingent, which has failed to contain relentless violence in Darfur.The first two stages consist of technical and logistical assistance. The third, which aims at turning the African contingent into a "hybrid" AU-UN force, has yet to be approved by Beshir

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