Darfur JEM denounces Sudan’s expulsion of AU force
Sept 3, 2006 (PARIS) — A rebel group opposed to the Darfur peace agreement denounced Sudanese government decision to pull out the AU forces from Darfur troubled region, a press release said.
The rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) “strongly condemns” the Sudan’s government decision to pull out the African Union Force from Sudan’s troubled region of Darfur.
“It is totally unacceptable and constitutes a clear breach of all the agreements concerning the cease-fire system in the Region, including the N’djamena Cease-Fire Agreement April 2004, The Addis Ababa Agreement of the Modalities May 2004 and the Humanitarian and Security protocols signed in Abuja 2005,” said JEM spokesperson Ahmed Hussain Adam.
Adam called upon the international community to condemn this decision and to “to take all the necessary measures to protect our people in Darfur, to assure the flow of the humanitarian assistance and to bring about a political and a comprehensive peaceful settlement to the crisis.”
The Sudanese government said Sunday that it does not agree with the African Union decision to transfer its mission to the United Nation. Khartoum requested the Au to pull its force out of Darfur by the end of this month.
Sudan rejected a Security Council resolution passed on Thursday 31 August to deploy more than 20,000 U.N. troops and police to its violent Darfur region as illegal and contravening a May peace accord because the DPA assigned a role of the AU force not the UN force.
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