U.S. Urges Immediate Passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution on Darfur (08/31)

August 31, 2006
No. 28/06

Washington (August 30) -- U.S. Department of State has announced that a proposed resolution that calls for the end to the violence in Darfur is now before the United Nations Security Council.  State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement Wednesday the United States urges prompt passage of this extremely important resolution.  United Nations peacekeepers are urgently needed to end the violence that has brought suffering to untold hundreds of thousands of people in the Darfur region.  There must be no delay in the transition from the African Union force to the UN peacekeeping force.  The statement declared Darfur is on the verge of a dangerous downward spiral, and the suffering and the genocide must stop immediately.

###