News release: Updating the Council on the humanitarian situation in Darfur, John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said “I am saddened and angry that, after five years of suffering, and four years since this Council became actively engaged, we have still not been able to find a lasting solution to the suffering of [the] millions of men, women and children.”

In a statement later read out on behalf of Special Envoys Jan Eliasson of the United Nations and the African Union’s Salim Salim, Mr. Adada warned that it would be difficult for UNAMID(African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur) to implement its mandate and protect the civilians of Darfur if there was no peace to keep. Prospects for comprehensive substantive talks between the parties in the near future were dim.”