A/RES/48/147 Page 4 10. Also calls upon the Government of the Sudan to ensure a full, thorough and prompt investigation by the independent judicial inquiry commission of the killings of Sudanese nationals employed by foreign government relief organizations, to bring to justice those responsible for the killings and to provide just compensation to the families of the victims; 11. Further calls upon the Government of the Sudan to investigate and explain without delay the circumstances behind the air attacks on 12 and 23 November 1993; 12. Strongly urges all parties to the hostilities to redouble their efforts to negotiate an equitable solution to the civil conflict to ensure respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the Sudanese people, and thereby create the necessary conditions to end the exodus of Sudanese refugees to neighbouring countries and facilite their early return to the Sudan, and welcomes efforts to facilitate dialogue among the parties to that end; 13. Notes with appreciation, in this connection, the current regional efforts of heads of State of the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda) to assist parties to the conflict in the Sudan to reach a peaceful settlement; 14. Calls upon the Government of the Sudan and other parties to permit international agencies, humanitarian organizations and donor Governments to deliver humanitarian assistance to the civilian population and to cooperate with the recent initiatives of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat to deliver humanitarian assistance to all persons in need; 15. Recommends that the serious human rights situation in the Sudan be monitored, and invites the Commission on Human Rights to give urgent attention to this questionat its fiftieth session; 16. Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its forty-ninth session. 85th plenary meeting 20 December 1993

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