» Thursday, July 19, 2007

Paris/Darfur

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the Prime Minister’s meeting tomorrow with President Sarokzy would be a wide ranging discussion, with particular focus on Darfur where Douglas Alexander had just visited. As the Prime Minister had said previously, the situation on Darfur was appalling, with 200,000 dead, 2 million displaced and 4 million people on food aid. The Prime Minister and the President would discuss how we could enhance international efforts to build a comprehensive plan for Darfur. Elements of that would include issues around the speed of deployment of UN and the African Union forces, how we could re-invigorate the peace process, and how we could develop an economic recovery and reconstruction plan for Darfur. As the Prime Minister had said at PMQs yesterday, if the Sudanese government blocked progress, we were ready to impose further UN and EU sanctions.

Put that it could be argued that there was a greater moral case for something to be done about Zimbabwe, the PMS replied that as he had said yesterday, there was a long-standing position on Zimbabwe that had not changed.

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