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| Tuesday,
June 28, 2011, 09:44 AM |
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| United
Nations Council approved a resolution June 27, 2011 to send
4,200 peacekeepers in Sudan. |
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The
U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Monday 27, 2011,
to send 4,200 peacekeepers to Abyei, Sudan, as part of a
recent agreement between Sudan and Southern Sudan.
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Northern Sudanese armed forces seized the disputed Abyei
region. A new conflict is on the way between South and North
Sudan (Archive picture May 28, 2011)
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The
resolution will establish, for six months, the United
Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), comprising
"a maximum of 4,200 military personnel, 50 police
personnel, and appropriate civilian support," the
resolution states.
It passed
the council unanimously, 15-0.
A week
ago, the Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation
Movement signed an agreement to allow peacekeepers in Abyei,
aimed at ending strife that has ravaged much of the country.
The two sides agreed in principle on the need for a third
party to monitor the ill-defined border between north and
south before the scheduled July 9 independence for the south.
The U.N. peacekeepers will "monitor
and verify the redeployment of any Sudan Armed Forces,
Sudan People's Liberation Army or its successor"
from the Abyei area, among other tasks, the Security Council
resolution states.
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