PARIS, June 25 (Reuters) - A Paris meeting aimed a galvanizing efforts to stabilise Sudan's Darfur region ended on Monday with agreement to support current international efforts there and coordinate future steps.
At a closing news conference, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the delegations reaffirmed their support for joint African Union and United Nations efforts, such as a planned hybrid peacekeeping force for Darfur and an effort to strike a wider political agreement between Khartoum and the rebel factions in western Sudan.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the meeting had enabled the delegates from top donor countries, the Group of Eight industrialised nations and Sudan ally China to assess the situation and plan solutions.
"We really must redouble our efforts, and I think that that was the spirit of today's conference," Rice told reporters.
"The point here was to take stock of where we are and to make sure that we are doing everything we can," Rice said.
((Reporting by Francois Murphy and Arshad Mohammed; editing by Mary Gabriel))
