UN Calls for Urgent Action on Sudan Referendum

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Source: VOA

16 November 2010
David Gollust | The United Nations

The U.N. Security Council, in a special meeting on Sudan, said urgent action is needed to assure a peaceful referendum in January on independence for southern Sudan. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said a successful vote can lead to a dramatic improvement in U.S. relations with Khartoum.

The presence of Clinton and other big-power diplomats at the meeting underscored world concern about lagging preparations for the voting, which would climax the north-south Sudan peace process begun with the Comprehensive Peace Accord or CPA in 2005 ...

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