Sudanese Envoy Warns Of War If Referendum Goes Ahead In Abyei -- Voice of AmericaSudan's U.N. ambassador is warning the country could slip back into civil war if a referendum goes ahead in the oil-rich Abyei region in January without consent from Khartoum. Meanwhile, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said more international troops will not be able to prevent a return to war, only a political settlement could accomplish that.
Sudan's U.N. Ambassador Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman told the U.N. Security Council that his government is committed to holding a credible, impartial and transparent referendum on whether the south will secede from the north. "The referendum is not an end in itself but a means leading us to buttressing peace, stability and ideal co-existence. Not to war, which we never accepted willingly. We accepted self-determination with a view to ending war once and for all," he said.
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