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EU to send 130 monitors to Sudan's April polls |
2010-03-12 |
[Al Arabiya Latest] The European Union says it will send 130 EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Thursday the April 11-18 vote will be "an important milestone" in bringing lasting peace to a country wracked by decades of fighting. Veronique De Keyser, a member of the European Parliament, will lead more than 130 "So at the beginning of the process we have to admit that it will not be perfect but we have to pay attention to that," she said, adding the road to democracy was long. A 2005 peace deal ended a north-south conflict that killed 2 million people, but by then the western Darfur region was at war. The election will be a test run for a 2011 independence referendum in southern Sudan. The vote will be Sudan's first multiparty election in 24 years. |
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