HC Deb 16 December 1998 vol 322 c592W
25. Rev. Martin Smyth

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what progress has been made towards providing a corridor of tranquillity in Sudan. [62769]

Clare Short

The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Technical Committee on Humanitarian Affairs met on 16 to 18 November 1998. An agreement on the operational standards for rail corridors and cross-line road corridors was signed by the Government of Sudan, the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement and the UN. Further work is being undertaken to put this agreement into effect.

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