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Arab League, UN affirm need to halt violence in Sudan?’s Darfur

CAIRO, Nov 26, 2004 (KUNA) — Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa ‏expressed optimism on Friday at the prospect of working out a lasting and ‏credible agreement between the Sudanese Government and the Popular Movement of ‏‏South Sudan over the disputed region of Darfur.‏

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Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) rebels walk through an unidentified village in the desert west of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, November 8, 2004. (Reuters).

‏Moussa’s spokesman Husam Zaki Mustafa, speaking to journalists after the ‏
‏league chief held talks with the special UN envoy on Sudan, Jan Pronk, said ‏
‏the delegate affirmed the necessity of exerting pressure on the khartoum ‏
‏government and the rebels to avert possible deterioration of the security
‏conditions.‏

‏The league secretary general expressed identical views on the conflict in ‏
‏Darfur and called for international role to avert possible reccurrence of ‏
‏wide-scale bloody fighting.‏

‏Pronk briefed Moussa about his assessment of the latest developments in ‏
‏Darfur and Moussa assured him that the Arab organization was exerting ‏
‏substantial diplomatic efforts to maintain normalcy in the disputed regions of ‏
‏the Sudan.‏

‏Addressing a news conference, held later today at the UN main office in ‏
‏Cairo, Pronk underscored the necessity that all factions in Sudan, namely in ‏
‏the Darfur region, abide by previously-signed agreements including the ‏
‏cease-fire accord to ensure continuous inflow of humanitarian and relief ‏
‏supplies to the stricken region.‏

The fighting in Darfur has resulted in relocating nearly 1.6 million ‏
‏people, Pronk confirmed. He also affirmed that Egypt could play a crucial role ‏
‏in settling the Sudanese crisis.‏

‏Two main armed opposition groups, the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the ‏
‏Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), started the fight against the Khartoum ‏
‏forces in early 2003.‏

‏The United Nations has warned that it will impose curbs on Khartoum if it ‏
‏fails to halt violence in Darfur, where some 70,000 people have been lost ‏
‏their lives, since March, as a result of hunger and diseases.

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