Sir David Veness, the first deputy secretary of UN on issues of protection and security, who is visiting Romania, met the SPP officers that are leaving for Darfur-Sudan on a UN mission next week.

The 12 SPP officers mission is to provide protection and security for the high UN officials that are deployed in Sudan.

The high UN dignitary spoke about the latest operational information with the protective security detail that is to leave for Darfur and settled together with them the first measures that are to be undertaken when the UN team arrives in Darfur.

Sir David Veness congratulated the SPP officers for their training and their high level of knowledge in the field of protection (for UN dignitaries) and wished them success in all protective actions that they are going to organize for a year in Darfur.

The UN official thanked the SPP management for the professionalism of the teams that are already developing missions of protection for UN dignitaries in the areas of missions in Sudan and Afghanistan. At present SPP has got 24 officers employed for UN missions deployed in Kabul and Khartoum.