UNITED NATIONS, July 7 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan wants the Security Council to adopt a resolution as soon as possible concerning Sudan's western Darfur region.
In a teleconference call from Nairobi, Kenya, Annan said he wants to bring an end to the deadly violence and ethnic displacement wracking the area. He visited Sudan and its neighbor to the west, Chad, last week.
The secretary-general described the situation in Chad as "totally intolerable," according to U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland, who accompanied Annan.
However, Egeland returned to U.N. World Headquarters in New York sitting in on the panel of 15's private consultations and also to brief envoys while Annan continued his visit to Africa.
Egeland told reporters Annan wants a resolution as soon as possible -- and with as much concrete detail as possible -- to help ensure armed, government-allied Janjaweed militias stop attacking villages and killing and raping civilians.
He said if there was another outbreak of renewed fighting, "...the whole program of our humanitarian lifeline will fold immediately and hundreds of thousands of people may die."
