Sudan: UN Peacekeeping Chief Warns of Risks Ahead of Independence Vote in Southern Sudan

16 December 2010

The peace process that ended two decades of war between northern and southern Sudan, culminating in next month's referendum on independence for the country's south, risks unravelling unless both sides reach agreement on the disputed oil-rich Abyei region, the United Nations peacekeeping chief warned today.

"We are confronting the most critical period of the peace process," the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Alain Le Roy, said in a briefing to the Security Council.

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