» Thursday, July 19, 2007Paris/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. Briefing took place at 9:00 | Search for related news Original PMOS briefings are © Crown Copyright. Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland. Click-use licence number C02W0004089. Material is reproduced from the original 10 Downing Street source, but may not be the most up-to-date version of the briefings, which might be revised at the original source. Users should check with the original source in case of revisions. Comments are © Copyright contributors. Everything else is © Copyright Downing Street Says. |
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