U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro will be leading the U.N. delegation to the African Union-European Union Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, UN spokesperson Marie Okabe announced Thursday.
Okabe told reporters at a regular briefing that Migiro will be joined in the Portuguese capital by the U.N. High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Countries and Small Island Developing States Cheick Sidi Diarra, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Edmond Mulet and Deputy Chef de Cabinet Kim Won-Soo.
Mulet and Kim are scheduled to meet with the Sudanese delegation attending the summit on issues relating to the deployment of the hybrid force, known as UNAMID, to try to quell the fighting between rebels, government forces and allied militias, she noted.
Okabe said that the purpose of the talks on the sidelines of the summit will be to tackle and resolve the issue of the composition of UNAMID as well as "all other obstacles impeding" its deployment.
UNAMID is due to take over from the existing but under-resourced AU mission (known as AMIS) by the start of next month.
Source: Xinhua
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