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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9367
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/darfur

Parliament calls on UN to set date for deployment of peace force without waiting for agreement from Khartoum - Call for sanctions to be applied by EU and international community

Strasbourg, 15/02/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament expresses grave concern at the humanitarian situation in Darfur where massacres and human rights violations continue unrelentingly despite the peace agreement of 5 May 2006. It calls on the United Nations to set a clear date for deployment of a peacekeeping force “even in the absence of consent or agreement from the Sudanese Government”. MEPs call on the EU and on the other international players to apply sanctions “that...

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