Sudan: UN Mission to Remain for Another Year to Support North-South Peace Pact

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–29 April 2010 – The Security Council today extended for another year the mandate of the United Nations mission supporting the 2005 agreement that ended the decades-long north-south civil war in Sudan, stressing the need to complete all remaining tasks under the peace pact.

In a unanimously adopted resolution, the 15-member body decided to extend the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) until 30 April 2011, “with the intention to renew it…