 (SomaliNet) The United nations (UN) are set to pull out of eastern Sudan since forces of the former rebel, Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) had withdrawn from the region according to a peace agreement it signed with the government in January 2005,a senior UN official said Thursday, Xinhua reported. United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General in Sudan, Jan Pronk, told reporters that since the tasks of the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) were completed in the Kassala state under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the mission's offices and operations will be closed and phased out. According to Pronk, the mission of UNMIS in the region was accomplished after the completion of redeployment of thousands SPLM troops from eastern Sudan last month. |