AU Panel to Present Report on Darfur
(PANA)-- The African Union (AU) high-level panel on Darfur (AUDP) will on 8/10/ 2009 present its report to the chairperson of the African Union Commission, Jean Ping.
The ceremony will take place at the headquarters of the AU, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, according to a press release from the AU communications department.
In line with the decision adopted by the peace and security council (PSC) at its 142nd meeting on 21 July 2008, calling for the formation of an AU high-level panel on Darfur, the chairperson of the Commission appointed a number of African personalities as members of the AUPD. The PSC decision was subsequently endorsed by the 12th ordinary session of the assembly of the union held from 1 to 3 February 2009.
The AUPD, which is chaired by former President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, is mandated to examine the situation in Darfur in depth and submit recommendations on how best the issues of accountability and combating impunity, on the one hand, peace, healing and reconciliation, on the other, could be effectively and comprehensively addressed. In this context, the AUPD convened its inaugural meeting in Addis Ababa, on 18 and 19 March 2009.
The inaugural meeting was followed by wide consultations with both the Sudanese and international stakeholders. The panel has now completed its work and will formally hand over its report to the chairperson of the Commission for examination by the AU PSC in due course.
In addition to former president Thabo Mbeki, the panel comprises Pierre Buyoya, former president of Burundi, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, former Nigerian head of State, Alhaji Kabir A. Mohammed (Nigeria), former State house counsel and special envoy of former president Olusegun Obasanjo on the trial of suspects of war crimes and human rights violations in Darfur.
Other members of the panel are Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba (Zambia), Judge of the Supreme Court, Ahmed Maher El Sayed, former foreign minister of Egypt and Rakiya Abdillahi Omaar (Somalia), Director, African Rights.
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