SUDAN: UN Secretary-General urges quick end to peace talks
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NAIROBI, 18 November (IRIN) - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday called for a quick signing of a comprehensive peace agreement between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People&#39;s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), saying such a
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United Nations chief Kofi Annan demanded on Tuesday that the world body's human rights watchdog, meeting in special session on Sudan's Darfur, send a clear message that the "nightmare" of violence had to stop.
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His time at the helm of the world body nearing an end, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan stepped up his efforts Tuesday to force a halt to atrocities in Darfur, demanding the U.N. Human Rights Council send an independent team of investigators to the volatile Sudanese region.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is urging the Security Council to act quickly to protect civilians in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - Sudan Sunday said it would  immediately and unconditionally cease hostilities in the remote  Darfur region, and asked the United Nations and African Union  to request that rebel forces do the same.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for urgent action Thursday to stop attacks on civilians in western Sudan, saying the government has failed to rein in militias.
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The Sudanese government is trying to meet UN demands to end the conflict in Darfur that has killed up to 50,000 people but needs to do more, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Tuesday.
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The UN secretary general Kofi Annan called on Israel to end its military operation in Gaza. An operation which resulted in killing scores of Palestinians most of them are civilians including children since last Tuesday.
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The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for the civil war in the south of Sudan to be halted as soon as possible.
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The United Nations security council has called on the Sudanese government and rebels to abide by their pledges to end what the UN has termed the world&#39;s worst humanitarian crisis.
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The UN Security Council began a two-day extraordinary session in Nairobi on Thursday to push Sudan&#39;s north-south peace negotiations to a conclusion and to stop a separate bloody conflict in the western Darfur region.
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UN envoy Jan Eliasson said he was hopeful of a rapid reduction in violence in the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur after a series of meetings with government officials and rebel commanders this week.
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The United Nations chief on Monday welcomed the end to a three-month political dispute that threatened to re-ignite civil war in southern Sudan, but urged both sides to fully implement an earlier peace deal to help stabilize their region of Africa.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flies to Sudan on Monday to push for talks between the government and rebels to end the four-year-old crisis in Darfur and clear the way for a big peacekeeping force.
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United Nations head Kofi Annan has urged the Security Council to take &quot;prompt action&quot; to stop intensifying violence in the Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan - UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon urged Sudanese yesterday to seize the "historic opportunity" of a new peacekeeping force in Darfur to start a conclusive round of peace talks that would end the conflict.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Sudan's government Wednesday to stop aerial bombings in Darfur, deploring attacks that have killed innocent civilians in the escalating conflict.