UN General Assembly
2013

our common borders. As a result, my country will continue to actively strive for peace in the Sudan, as a member of the follow-up committee for the Darfur Peace Agreement. Nevertheless, I think it would be timely to draw the attention of the Assembly to the humanitarian situation in Darfur as a result of the new hotbeds of tension that are emerging and which lead to a constant flow of other refugees and internally displaced persons towards eastern Chad. Currently, there are more than 400,000 refugees and 200,000 internally displaced persons, compared to 290,000 and 180,000 in past years. All efforts made since the outbreak of that crisis to foster the return of refugees and internally displaced persons to their regions of origin have been in vain thus far. It is our duty to advocate from this rostrum for the energetic pursuit of assistance from the international community to all those people as political and ethnic tensions continue to divert them from their path to return. Chad condemns the rampant instability in the