EU støttede stærkt oprettelsen af den internationale undersøgelseskommission om overtrædelser af menneskerettighederne og den humanitære folkeret i Darfur, som konkluderede, at regeringsstyrker og militser foretog omfattende og systematiske vilkårlige angreb, herunder voldtægt og andre former for seksuel vold, over hele Darfur, samt henvisningen af kommissionens konklusioner til Den Internationale Straffedomstol.
I myself, before assuming my responsibilities as Minister for Europe, had responsibility for South Asia and South East Asia within the UK Foreign Office and I took the opportunity, anticipating in some ways his question, to meet directly with the ASEAN ambassadors in London, to press home to them directly the critical role that other Asian countries can play in bringing to bear a full awareness by that regime of the strength of international feeling.