Amaning, who is paying a working visit to UN headquarters, said eastern Chad now hosted a total of 250,000 refugees from Darfur, 57,000 from CAR and 180,000 internally displaced Chadians.
In addition, between 700,000 and 800,000 residents of eastern Chad "have been reeling from incursions by Chadian rebels which have made their communities very vulnerable."
Amaning called for concerted international efforts to ensure "a return to peace between Chad and Sudan, an end to rebel incursions and national reconciliation in Chad."
Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir and his Chadian opposite number Idriss Deby were to sign a new peace accord in Senegal to end five years of tensions that have regularly spilled over into border clashes and accusations that each supports rebels in the other's country.
The rivals have signed several previous accords which have all failed to be applied.
Meanwhile, a European Union peace force known as EUFOR has been mandated to protect refugees from Sudan as well as people internally displaced by the rebel insurgency in Chad and the northern Central African Republic.
A vanguard of the 14-nation mission to total 3,700 troops, 2,000 of whom will be French, has been deployed.
Source: AFP
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