A/RES/57/230
(m) The continuation of indiscriminate aerial bombardment of civilian targets
and indiscriminate artillery shelling of the civilian population, as well as the use of
civilian premises for military purposes;
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Urges all parties to the conflict in the Sudan:
(a) To seize the prospect of peace to ensure continuing progress in the fields
of human rights, democratization and the rule of law and create a climate of mutual
trust and confidence that will be the basis for a viable peace and facilitate
reconciliation;
(b) To respect and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, to
respect fully international humanitarian law, in particular the need to ensure the
protection of civilians and civilian premises, thereby facilitating the voluntary
return, repatriation and reintegration of refugees and internally displaced persons to
their homes, and to ensure that those responsible for violations of human rights and
international humanitarian law are brought to justice;
(c) To adhere to agreements signed within the framework of the Machakos
Protocol, to take necessary measures to facilitate the peace negotiations and to work
actively towards the establishment of a just and viable peace, based on respect of
human rights and the principles of democratization and the rule of law, within the
context of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development peace process;
(d) To enhance the implementation of the Khartoum agreement to protect
civilians and civilian facilities from military attacks, and in particular urges the
Government of the Sudan to cease immediately all indiscriminate aerial
bombardments of and attacks against the civilian population and civilian
installations, and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement to cease
immediately the indiscriminate artillery shelling of the civilian population, the use
of civilian premises for military purposes, the misappropriation of humanitarian
assistance and the diversion of relief supplies, including food, from their civilian
recipients;
(e) To refrain from undertaking military activities as a demonstration of their
willingness to seek a peaceful solution to the long-standing conflict and to adhere to
a comprehensive ceasefire as part of a just peace negotiation process;
(f) To stop the support provided to and use of tribal militias that commit
grave human rights abuses;
(g) To continue adhering to the agreement on procedures for unimpeded
access of humanitarian aid to secure full, safe and unhindered access to all
international agencies and humanitarian organizations in order to facilitate by all
possible means the delivery of humanitarian assistance, in conformity with relevant
provisions of international humanitarian law, to all civilians in need of protection
and assistance and to continue to cooperate with the Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat and Operation Lifeline Sudan;
(h) Not to use or recruit children under the age of 18 as soldiers, to continue
demobilizing child soldiers, to refrain from the practice of forced conscription and
to fulfil the commitments made concerning the protection of children affected by
war, including cessation of the use of anti-personnel landmines, attacks on sites at
which there is usually a significant presence of children and the abduction and
exploitation of children, as well as to ensure access to and the return of displaced
and unaccompanied minors and to reunite them with their families;
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