UN special envoy Jan Pronk heads to West Darfur

UN SGSR Jan Pronk, headed today for West Darfur to reinforce the efforts exerted to win a large scale support for the Darfur Peace Agreement Bahrain News Agency reported May 17, 2006:

Official Spokesman of the UN delegation to Sudan, Baha Al Kousi, said Pronk will meet West Darfur Governor, the representatives of the African Union, civil society and humanitarian organisations as well as the representatives of the Sudanese armed groups which objected to the peace accord. Pronk hailed the peace accord, stressing the need to back up efforts to implement it and draw more support.