U.N. Special Representative in Sudan offered to facilitate political settlement in meeting with Burhan

CAIRO- The U.N. Special Representative in Sudan met with Sudanese General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Wednesday and encouraged him to de-escalate the situation in the country, calling for access to and the release of detainees, his mission said in a statement on Thursday.

Volker Perthes "offered his good offices to facilitate a political settlement towards the restoration of the transitional partnership," the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) said.

(Reporting by Nafisa Eltahir Editing by Peter Graff) ((Nafisa.Eltahir@thomsonreuters.com;))