THE Sudanese government said on Sunday it viewed favourably a recent call by the UN Human Rights Commission for a ceasefire in the country’s brutal three decade civil war between the Muslim north and Christian and animist south. “The government has always advocated a comprehensive ceasefire as a prelude to a negotiated settlement to the armed conflict,” Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail said in response to a resolution passed on Friday by the UN human rights body in Geneva. In recent years, ceasefires have been implemented periodically to allow humanitarian aid to reach the war-ravaged south. “We are convinced that the south Sudan problem cannot be resolved militarily and a political solution should be sought,” Ismail said. The war has left one million people dead and displaced millions of others, forcing some into exile. – AFP