Friday, February 04, 2005

More than 10,000 troops proposed for UN peace-support mission for Sudan

More than 10,000 troops proposed for UN peace-support mission for Sudan
UN News Center

3 February 2005 – Secretary-General Kofi Annan today formally recommends that the United Nations establish a peace-support mission in southern Sudan, and calls on Member States to contribute more than 10,000 troops and 700 civilian police to the operation, warning that the civil war that has just ended there "cannot quickly or easily be dispatched to history."

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