Sudan Moves to Forestall British-backed Resolution to Keep UNAMID IN Darfur.

Khartoum, 21 June 2015(Lana) The Sudanese Foreign Ministry has mounted an offensive to confront a British-backed resolution before the UN Security Council to keep the joint international mission UNAMID in Darfur, western Sudan. The spokesman for the Sudanese Foreign Ministry Ali Al Sadeq said in statements on Sunday the ministry and the Sudanese mission in New York have launched started extensive moves and contacts among friendly countries and peace-loving countries and organisations to inform them about Sudan's view point concerning the agreement reached by the tripartite committee assigned to put in place an exit strategy for UNAMID especially that the mission justified existence in the province has expired. The Sudanese UN mission has deplored statements by the US Representative Samantha Power over the situation in Darfur and the exit strategy. Al sadeq refuted the US Representative statements, and the Sudanese mission circulated a press release deploring the statements and the 'baseless' judgment especially the negative narrative about the UNAMID exit strategy, describing the situation in Darfur as deteriorated. The statement described US statements as stark contradiction of the reality on the ground. =Lana=