UN Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Jean-Marie Guehenno
praised on Monday China's "important and constructive role" in
helping ending the crisis on Darfur, western Sudan.
China is playing a "very important and constructive role" in the
UN Security Council to help bring a consensus to end the fighting
in Darfur, Guehenno told reporters after meeting top European Union
(EU) officials, including EU foreign policy chief Javier
Solana.
"China sees how detrimental to Africa the continuation of the
conflict in Darfur is," he said, noting that China has appointed a
special envoy in demonstration of its willingness to push for peace
in the war-torn region.
In May this year, the Chinese government appointed Liu Guijin as
its special envoy for Darfur.
Guehenno expressed his belief that China, as a country with
influence, could use its good relations with the government of
Sudan to help push forward the efforts in finding a political
solution and a negotiated agreement on Darfur.
Guehenno briefed Solana and other senior EU officials on UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's recent trips to Chad, Sudan and
Libya, and discussed with them the EU's plans to deploy a
peacekeeping force to Chad, a neighbor of Sudan.
(Xinhua News Agency September 11, 2007)
