United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon tries to restore peace in Sudan’s embattled Darfur region as soon as possible and Libya is the latest country to offer its support for Ban’s peace plan, media repots said Sunday.

On Saturday, the South Korean diplomat held a short round of discussions with Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi, who vowed to bring at the same negotiations table Darfur rebel groups and Khartoum officials next month.

Ban Ki-moon said both the UN and Libya want to end the conflict ravaging Darfur as quickly as possible.

“We seriously intend negotiating a final peace settlement during this round of talks,” UN’s Secretary General said.

Libya’s support could represent a decisive factor in this process, because of its ties with prominent rebel groups from Darfur and especially with rebel leader Abdul Wahid Noor, who refused to participate at talks with government officials.

During the past week, Ban visited the strife-torn region, Khartoum, Chad and Libya and held talks with leaders from all parties involved in the conflict and neighbouring nations.

“There must be an end to violence and insecurity, a strengthened ceasefire supported by the incoming hybrid operation, as well as an improvement in the humanitarian situation and greater prospects for development and recovery for the people of Darfur,” he said in a statement made public by the UN.

“There must be full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the south and north (of Sudan), bring all the political issues to a resolution and there needs to be development issues to be discussed on an international level,” he added.

The Sudanese government pledged to seek a peaceful ending to the four-year-old conflict and support with all available means the hybrid peacekeeping force scheduled to be deployed next year. An agreement sealing those words has been signed by Ban Ki-moon and Sudanese Foreign Minister Lam Akol.

Chad's President Idriss Deby said his country could host a preliminary round of negotiations between rebel groups. The talks would be aimed at reaching a consensus so that only one voice will be able to speak on behalf of all rebel factions.

The bloody conflict claimed at least 200,000 lives since in erupted in 2003 and displaced approximately 2.5 million people.