Brussels, 26/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - On 25 June, the Spanish Presidency adopted the following declaration on behalf of the EU:
"While welcoming the opening of substantive negotiations within the IGAD framework, the EU remains highly concerned about the humanitarian situation in many parts of the Sudan and in particular in Western Upper Nile, Eastern Equatoria and Bahr-El-Ghazal. The EU recalls the universal humanitarian principle, that civilian populations must be protected from the...