Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 28 June 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with his (a) US, (b) European and (c) African counterparts with regard to submitting a resolution on Darfur to the UN Security Council; what progress he has made on this; and if he will make a statement.
Our priority is to improve the situation on the ground. So our efforts are focused on stopping the fighting, ensuring civilian protection and responding to the humanitarian crisis. Deployment of the African Union-led ceasefire monitoring mechanism has now begun. We have already contributed £2 million to the AU mission, and we are supporting the deployment of UN Human Rights monitors. We are also working with the Government of Sudan on humanitarian access, and have allocated £34.5 million for humanitarian assistance in response to the crisis.
Darfur has been discussed in the Security Council on a number of occasions and we are in close contact with the US, other European and African members of the Council. On
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