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Tripartite committee to resume meetings on UN exit strategy from Sudan's Darfur

Xinhua, October 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

The tripartite committee of Sudan's government, the United Nations and the African Union, entrusted with setting up an exit strategy for the peacekeeping mission from Darfur, is to resume meetings early next month, according to foreign ministry spokesman.

Last June, the Sudanese government announced suspension of the work of the committee after accusing the United Nations of backtracking on an initial agreement for the exit of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) from the disputed region.

"The three parties have agreed to resume the work of the joint committee early November," Ali Al-Sadiq, Sudan's foreign ministry spokesman, told reporters Sunday.

Khartoum seems to be insistent to reach a strategy that avails a smooth exit of the UNAMID from Darfur.

The relationship between the Sudanese government and UNAMID deteriorated after the mission's report last year in which it accused members of the Sudanese army of committing mass rape at Tabit village in North Darfur State.

The UNAMID is the second biggest peacekeeping mission in the world, after the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

It consists of over 20,000 personnel of military, police and civilian components, with a budget of 1.4 million U.S. dollars in 2013. Enditem