The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has set ambitious goals for a tour he will make next week of Sudan, Chad and Libya, saying he aims to lay the foundations of lasting peace in violence-racked Darfur.
But he told reporters that a massive peace mission due to go to Darfur would come to nothing without cooperation from Sudan's government and he would press it for its full support.
His six-day trip follows last month's Security Council resolution dispatching 26,000 UN and African Union peacekeepers to the western Sudanese region.
An estimated 200,000 people have died and 2.5m have been displaced in Darfur since rebels launched an uprising in 2003, accusing Khartoum of neglecting the region.
