Home / International / World Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read | Comment
Annan to Speak to Sudanese Leader on Trip Ban to Darfur
Adjust font size:

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is seeking to speak to Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir after Khartoum reportedly banned a visit by the top UN relief official to the troubled Darfur region.

"The secretary-general regrets that the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, was not permitted by the government of Sudan to visit Darfur," said a statement issued by a UN spokesman on Tuesday.

"The pressing and urgent humanitarian requirements of Darfur are a priority for the United Nations and coordination efforts to sustain this large program were at the center of Egeland's visit."

"The secretary-general will be seeking to speak to President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir on this matter," the statement added.

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland's plane was refused permission to land on Sunday at the start of what was to have been a five-day visit to Africa's largest country.

The world body has been heavily involved in trying both to ease the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and to promote the rehabilitation of the recently pacified southern Sudan. The Darfur conflict, which pits the government, militias and rebels, has killed many people and uprooted millions.

Egeland eventually flew from Uganda to Juba, capital of southern Sudan, by commercial plane but, after spending a day in the town of Rumbek, he left the country when the government's refusal to let him visit Darfur aborted the trip.

(Xinhua News Agency April 5, 2006 )

Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read
Comment
Pet Name
Anonymous
China Archives
Related >>
- Sudan Calls UN Report on Darfur Unfair
- Annan, Security Council to Meet on Sudan's Darfur
- Security Council Extends Mandate of UN Mission in Sudan
- UN Relocates Staff in Darfur
- Sudan Expresses Sorrow over UN Resolution 1591
- Annan, Bush Hold Talks at White House
Most Viewed >>
> Korean Nuclear Talks
> Reconstruction of Iraq
> Middle East Peace Process
> Iran Nuclear Issue
> 6th SCO Summit Meeting
Links
- China Development Gateway
- Foreign Ministry
- Network of East Asian Think-Tanks
- China-EU Association
- China-Africa Business Council
- China Foreign Affairs University
- University of International Relations
- Institute of World Economics & Politics
- Institute of Russian, East European & Central Asian Studies
- Institute of West Asian & African Studies
- Institute of Latin American Studies
- Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
- Institute of Japanese Studies