Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday spoke with his Sudanese counterpart, Mustafa Oman Ismail, about a new U.N resolution aimed at support a peace accord ending a 21-year civil war in the southern part of the African country, the Foreign Ministry said. "They focused on drafting a new U.N Security Council resolution on Sudan," and also discussed ways to promote peace in Sudan's western Darfur region, the ministry said in a statement. The two officials spoke by telephone. The two foreign ministers agreed on the need to dispatch a U.N peacekeeping force to southern Sudan, the ministry said.
