The UN Security Council on Friday welcomed the recent peace agreement reached by authorities in the Central African Republic (CAR) and two rebel groups operating in the impoverished and strife-torn country.
In a statement, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, the council president for the month, said last Saturday's accord must now be fully implemented as part of efforts to bring peace to CAR.
The government struck an agreement with the Union of Democratic Forces for Unity (UFDR) and the Popular Army for the Restoration of Democracy (APRD) after talks in Libreville, Gabon, facilitated by that country's President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba.
The statement thanked both Bongo and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for their efforts to bring peace to CAR, which has been beset by widespread fighting and armed banditry in recent years.
Some 200,000 Central Africans have been either internally displaced by the fighting or forced to live as refugees in neighboring Chad and Cameroon.
Last year the UN Security Council established a multidimensional UN presence in eastern Chad and north-eastern CAR(known as MINURCAT) to ease the humanitarian suffering.
Source: Xinhua
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