Sudan’s Bashir discusses UNAMID mandate with UN official
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June 4, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese president Omer Al-Bashir met on
Thursday with the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for
Peacekeeping, Hervé Ladsous, to discuss the situation in Darfur and
the mandate of the joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID).
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Ladsous will finish today a three-day visit to Sudan he started on 2
July. On Wednesday he visited El-Daein, capital of East Darfur, where
he met community leaders and visited Al-Neem camp for displaced
people. On Thursday, he paid a visit to peacekeepers hospitalized in
Nyala, capital of South Darfur, after being injured in an ambush in
Lavado, East Darfur.
Speaking about the meeting with Bashir, the French diplomat told
reporters he discussed the renewal of UNAMID mandate which will be
renewed at the end of this month and the implementation of the Doha
Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD).
He further expressed hopes that the government fulfils its commitments
as provided in the DDPD, and reiterated the support of the
international organisation to the ongoing efforts to solve the problem
peacefully.
He also disclosed that UNAMID patrol heading to Nyala was ambushed by
unknown gunmen in Lavado, East Darfur on Wednesday and three Nigerian
soldiers were wounded.
He said they kept a body of one of the assailants killed during the
clashes and they hope that the joint investigation with the Sudanese
government would help to identify the gunmen who attacked the
peacekeepers.
He added that the attackers shot an ambulance travelling with the patrol.
Ladsous said he also discussed during his meeting with Bashir the
relations between Khartoum and Juba and the recent talks chaired by
Ali Osman Taha and the Riek Machar on the implementation of 27
September agreements between the two countries.
The UN official will also visit South Sudan which is part of his regional tour.
INVESTIGATION in ABYEI
The visiting UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping told
reporters in Khartoum that a Nigerian general is appointed to lead an
investigation on the incident which led to the death of the Dinka Ngok
paramount chief Kuol Deng Kuol in Abyei on 4 May.
Kuol died when his convoy, which had been escorted by the UNISFA, was
ambushed by armed members of the nomadic Arab Misseriya tribe, as he
returned to Abyei town after a visit further north.
Ladsous said that the United Nations wants to know what happened
there, adding that the fact finding team will work with all the
parties which had been present at the scene.
Last June Khartoum appointed a commission to probe the attack.
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