Kuwait City: Kuwait renewed its unequivocal stance towards supporting the unity and sovereignty of Sudan.
Delivering a statement to the UNSC meeting on the situation in Darfur, Kuwaiti Permanent Representative to the UN headquarters in New York Mansour Al Otaibi said that paramount support was required to address the current conditions in Sudan, indicating that a good first step would be to lift all sanctions and to remove Khartoum from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
"This new Sudan needs our support," Ambassador Al Otaibi reiterated, adding that Kuwait - alongside members of the UNSC and others - were willing to provide a helping hand to Sudan.
He emphasised that UNAMID's (United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur) new mandate must be clear and concise while confirming "it will definitely exit".
In addition, the mandate must be precise in specifying various areas of the Mission's work and fully respect the principle of national ownership. "The Juba dialogue brings a new opportunity for durable peace," he noted, stressing that the Mission's drawdown must reflect those changes. He went on to express support for continued United Nations aid even after UNAMID's exit, KUNA reported.