African Union Rejects U.N.-Led Force in Darfur
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UNITED NATIONS, June 2 -- The African Union has objected to a proposed joint A.U.-U.N. peacekeeping force in Sudan's troubled Darfur region because the United Nations would be in command, U.N. diplomats said.
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The African Union transferred authority Monday to a new joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in Darfur that the international community hopes will stem the violence in Sudan's war-torn western region.
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The government of Chad has refused to allow the United Nations to send an advance mission to prepare for the possible deployment of U.N. peacekeepers, a setback to plans to help thousands of civilians caught in the spillover of the Darfur conflict in neighboring Sudan.
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The U.N. Security Council on  Tuesday focused on African Union troops as a way out of the  Darfur crisis, ignoring its earlier threat of oil sanctions  against Sudan for atrocities against civilians.
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A Darfur rebel group said on Thursday it  refused to return to African Union-sponsored peace talks in the  Nigerian capital Abuja and rejected the pan-African body as  mediator to end the 22-month-old conflict.
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ABUJA, Nigeria Aug. 23, 2004 - A senior Sudanese official on Monday rejected an immediate wider role for African Union troops in the troubled Darfur region, saying security there was the responsibility of Sudanese forces.
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Sudan says it is not yet ready to accept a larger African Union peacekeeping force in the troubled region.
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UNITED NATIONS &#151; Sudan insisted Friday that African countries have offered enough troops for a peacekeeping force in Darfur despite U.N. concerns that the mission will not be effective without specialized contributions from outside the continent.
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Sudan's president has detailed his objections to a U.N. plan to support African Union troops in Darfur, saying in a document obtained Monday he wants fewer U.N. forces in the country and no helicopters or reconnaissance aircraft.
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Sudan rejects US Secretary of State Colin Powell's statement that genocide has been taking place in the Darfur region.
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Sudan said on Monday it would allow   African troops to remain in Darfur only under African Union   control and accused Washington of attempting "regime change" in   Khartoum by trying to bring in a U.N. force.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged U.N. member states on Thursday to provide critically needed aviation, transport and logistics units for the new African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region.
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A Darfur rebel group will not return to  African Union-sponsored peace talks in the Nigerian capital  Abuja and is rejecting the pan-African body as mediator to end  the 22-month-old conflict in Sudan's remote west.
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The United Nations proposed on  Wednesday a quick and "substantially" larger international  force in Sudan's Darfur region, saying Khartoum had failed to  stop attacks against civilians by Arab militia.
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Sudan on Wednesday rejected a U.S.-sponsored U.N. Security Council draft resolution to punish it over a conflict in its western Darfur region, saying the measure was unfair and lacked balance.
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Despite pressure for Sudan to  accept a peacekeeping force of 23,000 troops and police, a key  African Union committee has not approved plans sent by the  United Nations, diplomats said on Thursday.
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LONDON, Aug 18  -- The United Nations&#39; top envoy in Sudan said an African peacekeeping force deploying in Darfur was too small to carry out its mission in the vast, devastated Sudanese region, in comments published Wednesday in the Financial Times ...