Paris meeting agrees "support" for Darfur efforts
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A Paris meeting aimed a galvanizing efforts to stabilize Sudan's Darfur region ended on Monday with agreement to support current international efforts there and coordinate future steps.
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The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a French resolution endorsing sending a European Union-UN  force to Chad and the Central African Republic to protect civilians reeling from a spillover of the Darfur conflict.
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PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged swift international action Monday toward speeding up deployment of troops in Darfur, as key world players met to try to consolidate efforts and resources for the ravaged Sudanese region.
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President Jacques Chirac has urged Sudan to agree to a peace force for strife-torn Darfur at an Africa-France summit that is likely to be his last foray on the world stage.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is supporting African Union efforts to bolster its monitoring and protection presence in Sudan&#39;s trouble Darfur region.
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France declared it would intervene to protect the Chadian government if called upon and a Darfur rebel group said it had sent troops to help bolster the president.
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The Security Council on Wednesday welcomed Sudan&#39;s nod for a joint African Union-UN force to end bloodshed in Darfur and urged &quot;timely and full implementation&quot; of the deal, after getting assurances that Khartoum means business.
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France may take measures against a key Darfur rebel leader living in Paris if he continues to refuse to attend peace talks this week, a French human rights envoy said on a visit to Sudan on Monday.
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Khartoum agrees to allow more African Union troops and monitors in Darfur.
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Canadian and European Union leaders welcomed the African Union's decision to increase seven-fold its monitoring force in Sudan's Darfur region, and pledged to support the effort.
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PARIS -- An international meeting on Darfur ended yesterday with promises to support peacekeeping efforts and a political process to stop the violence in western Sudan, but with few concrete steps.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad promised on Friday to back United Nations moves to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region by allowing international peacekeepers on its own soil, and even offered to host preliminary peace talks.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Paris Sunday to take part in a major international conference aimed at launching a new drive to end atrocities in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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Looking to end the crisis in Darfur, France won agreement on Thursday from three involved African nations that they would not support armed rebel movements on each other's territories.Comment
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Sudan will watch from a distance on Monday as world powers, including ally China, gather in Paris to seek ways to end the violence in Darfur, in a conference Khartoum rejects as a distraction from current peace efforts.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Sudan agreed to an expanded peacekeeping force in the Darfur region yesterday, according to a communique approved by negotiators from Sudan, the United Nations, and the African Union.
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The UN Security Council met Friday to endorse a report on a planned UN-African Union joint peacekeeping operation in Darfur which calls for deploying a robust, mobile force of around 20,000 troops with Khartoum&#39;s consent.