The US State Department has welcomed the recent initiative by President Janez Drnovsek on building a camp for 10,000 Sudanese refugees.
"The US welcomes Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek's willingness to marshal additional international resources to provide aid for the estimated 1.8 million internally displaced persons in Sudan's western Darfur region and 200,000 refugees in Chad," the State Department said.
The press release issued on Monday also mentions that Drnovsek's "The World for Darfur" initiative, which is sponsored by Slovenian humanitarian organisations as well as by the Slovenian government, is intended to provide shelter, water, food and schools for 10,000 Sudanese.
"Acknowledging the 'modest' scale of Slovenia's aid package given the magnitude of the humanitarian emergency in Darfur, Drnovsek said the initiative also is aimed at generating greater awareness about the crisis, which has resulted in as many as 180,000 deaths and has displaced millions in the past three years," the State Department said.
Moreover, US President George W. Bush "was the first head of state to speak out publicly on the unfolding violence and atrocities in Darfur in 2004, and the US was the first country to call for action in the UN Security Council, as well as later providing US$ 160m to help fund an African Union peacekeeping mission to Darfur".
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