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In a related development, Social Planning Minister Chol Deng discussed the “problems and obstacles” facing OLS with the ambassadors of donor nations last Thursday, according to a state television report.
It said the ambassadors had stressed the importance of the humanitarian operation being able to operate normally and that he had asked them in turn to redouble international efforts aimed at achieving a “comprehensive” ceasefire between government forces and rebels in the south of the country.
UN officials told IRIN that the UN Special Envoy for Humanitarian Affairs, Tom Eric Vraalsen, was holding similar talks in the capital, Khartoum, on Monday. They said he was accompanied by officials representing UN agencies working in Sudan.
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