[Dabanga] Khartoum / Giessan, Blue Nile — The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), Volker Perthes, has strongly condemned the killing of an aid worker in Sudan’s Blue Nile state, saying that “such acts will not diminish the resolve of the United Nations to continue supporting the people and the government of Sudan in their quest for peace and stability”.