Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the High Coordinating Council for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), Gen. Bakri Hassan Salih, Sunday discussed with the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the Sudan, Ashraf Qazi, the arrangements for holding the round-table conference, scheduled to be held in the Friendship Hall on April 9, on preparations for Paris Donors Conference for supporting Sudan peace.
In this regard, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the Sudan, Ashraf Qazi, said in a statement to SUNA that he had a useful meeting with the minister, touching at some important issues, top of which were the DDR programme.
He also referred to the serious cooperation and coordination between the UN and the concerned bodies in order to make the conference successful. On his part, the Executive Secretary of the High Coordinating Council for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), Brig. Osman Nouri, said the meeting got assured about completion of all the arrangements for the convocation of the round-table conference, which will be addressed by Gen. Bakri Hassan Salih, and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the Sudan besides representatives of the donors, DDR, UNICEF and the UNDP.
The meeting touched on the excellent relations between the DDR Council and the UN as well as the arrangements for the 5th population census, said Brig. Nouri.
