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SG/SM/7469

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES IMMEDIATE END TO FIGHTING IN SUDAN

28 June 2000


Press Release
SG/SM/7469


SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES IMMEDIATE END TO FIGHTING IN SUDAN

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The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is concerned by renewed fighting in the Bahr-el- Ghazal area between the forces of the Government of Sudan and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement.

He urges all parties to the conflict to desist immediately from fighting, in order to save the lives of innocent civilians and to restore the humanitarian ceasefire.

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