Diplomats and members of the press on Thursday arrived in Arusha to witness the scheduled United Nations-African Union meeting on Darfur.
The three-day meeting, to start on Friday, is expected to get all parties to agree on a venue for future peace talks and to agree on a unified set of demands for peace negotiations.
The Arusha meeting, endorsed by the Second International Meeting on Darfur held in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on July 15 to 16, has got another morale booster as the Sudanese government on Wednesday announced its acceptance of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1769 on a hybrid peacekeeping operation.
Yet the key to the success of the Arusha meeting is still held by representatives of the factions of the Darfur rebel movements, to whom the African Union and the United Nations special envoys, Salim Ahmed Salim and Jan Eliasson, had sent invitations for them to attend the Arusha meeting.
But organizers of the Arusha meeting will not know for sure until Friday whether the rebel representatives will be present at the meeting.
The African Union and the United Nations special envoys have been shuttling across the vast semi-desert region of Darfur for the past few weeks trying to persuade rival rebel leaders to coordinate their demands and to prepare for full-scale peace talks with the Sudanese government in September this year.
The Arusha meeting will also be under the co-chairmanship of these two special envoys.
Source: Xinhua
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