Blair Urges End of Sudan Slaughter,
Sudan Urges End to Iraq Slaughter
Prime Minister Tony Blair today urged the government of Sudan to adopt a five-point plan designed to help end the slaughter in Darfur and ease the humanitarian crisis there. Mr Blair urged Sudan to:
- Allow more African Union troops to take part in peacekeeping.
- Identify its own troops and its sponsored militias to aid monitoring.
- Reach agreement with the rebels to withdraw both sides’ soldiers from Darfur.
- Reach a comprehensive agreement covering ethnic tensions throughout the country.
- Give a commitment to help humanitarian aid get through to the suffering.
In a simultaneous and apparently uncoordinated move, the Sudan government urged Prime Minister Blair to to adopt a five-point plan designed to help end the slaughter in Iraq and ease the humanitarian crisis there. Sudan urged Mr Blair to:
- Hand over the Iraq reconstruction process to the UN to Allow more UN troops to take part in peacekeeping.
- Withdraw UK and US troops and its sponsored militias.
- Reach agreement with the rebels to withdraw all sides’ soldiers from Iraq.
- Reach a comprehensive agreement covering ethnic tensions throughout the country.
- Give a commitment to help humanitarian aid get through to the suffering.
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