Slovene president urges UN to resolve Darfur crisis

Jan 9, 2006 (LJUBLJANA) — Slovene president Janez Drnovsek has sent a letter to the UN and well-known personalities, calling upon them to wake up regarding the crisis in Sudan’s region Darfur.

Drnovsek wrote to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and some other well-known personalities, calling upon them to warn the world about the catastrophe and to join Slovenia’s humanitarian action.

Drnovsek calls upon the UN to use its mandate for measures in Darfur, to call a Security Council meeting and to immediately organize an operation which NATO could join with its big transport capacities.

“We are all responsible for what is happening, History will be our judge. No excuses will help us. Millions of innocent victims will accuse us. There is still time for action. Seize the opportunity,” Drnovsek wrote in his letter addressed to Annan.

Drnovsek believes that people from many states will join the operation for saving Darfur.

Drnovsek sent a separate letter to well-known personalities from the world of politics, sport and entertainment. He explained that the situation in Darfur had been worsening. This is why Slovenia has organized a humanitarian action with a goal of setting up a camp for 10,000 people.

“Now it is the time; it will be too late tomorrow. Join our small Slovene humanitarian action and this will no longer be a drop in the sea, but the sea itself,” he wrote in the letter.

(TV Slovenia/ST)