The Sudanese government reiterated on Wednesday its commitment to realizing stability in the conflict-torn western region of Darfur.
"The Sudanese government has the strongest keenness on the stability in Darfur," Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ali al- Sadig told Xinhua.
"Sudan has spared no effort to persuade the armed groups to terminate the violence and accept all the mediations and initiatives for seeking a peaceful solution," al-Sadig said.
He rejected accusations made by UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon that the Sudanese government was involved in recent fightings in Darfur.
"I believe that these accusations are based on fabricated information from organizations and agencies with a political agenda," al-Sadig said.
"The Sudanese government hasn't carried out any military activities recently and the Sudanese army has no activities in Darfur," he said.
Ban told reporters in the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday that he was "deeply concerned about the recent escalation in violence in Darfur," claiming that hundreds of people had been killed in the last few weeks alone.
Ban noted the recent attacks, including the repeated bombardment of villages, were "simply unacceptable."
Ban also said he is to visit Darfur next week, with a purpose of seeing for himself "the very difficult conditions" under which the largest-ever UN peacekeeping operation will be carried out.
Ban said he will travel next week to Sudan, Chad and Libya ahead of the deployment of some 26,000 UN-African Union forces as agreed by the UN Security Council last month.
"I want to create the foundations of a lasting peace and security," he said. "My goal is to lock in the progress we have made so far."
Source: Xinhua
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