Chirac urges Sudan to accept Darfur force
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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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Sudan has urged the African Union to extend the mandate of its truce monitors in Darfur, ahead of a crucial vote by the African body and amid mounting pressure on Khartoum to accept UN forces.
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Sudan faced mounting pressure Thursday to allow a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur or risk sanctions amid calls for Khartoum to hand over two officials wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes.
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The leaders of Britain and France pledged Friday to step up pressure on their allies to help end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, saying it is crucial to quickly deploy more peacekeepers and maintain the threat of sanctions against combatants on both sides.
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Sudanese President Omar Al-Beshir. An Africa-France summit seen as President Jacques Chirac's goodbye to Africa is drawing to a close after a shaky agreement was signed to prevent violence in Darfur from ...Comment
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Sudan will not accept a peacekeeping force in the troubled Darfur region but may agree to extra monitors being deployed, its foreign minister says.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon holds talks with Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir on Thursday to win his support for a rapid deployment of a massive new peacekeeping force in Darfur, a region wracked by four years of war and human suffering.
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Saying "silence kills", French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged delegates to a meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Darfur on Monday to find a way to stop the violence ravaging Sudan's vast west.
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China, India and Pakistan are considering contributing troops to a peacekeeping force for Sudan's Darfur region , a U.N. diplomat said Saturday, after Sudan accepted the possibility of non-African soldiers in the mission.
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CANNES, France  - The leaders of Sudan, Chad and Central African Republic agreed on Thursday in talks on Sudan's wartorn Darfur province not to support rebels attacking each other's territory.
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The United Nations' special envoy for Sudan appealed Wednesday for European logistical help in urgently deploying thousands of African peacekeepers to Darfur, where months of conflict has killed more than 50,000 people and uprooted a million more.
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The international community should consider all options &#151; including military intervention &#151; as it mulls how to deal with Sudan's rejection of a U.N. peacekeeping force for war-ravaged Darfur, a top British official said Monday.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy made their case for how to resolve the crisis in Darfur in a comment piece released on Thursday.
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Sudan on Wednesday to quickly approve the makeup of a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, but Khartoum faulted donor states for delaying its deployment.
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Sudan has accepted a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force of up to 23,000 troops and police for Darfur but some U.N. diplomats fear conditions may be attached.
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CANNES, France  - A summit intended to strengthen ties between Africa and former colonial power France opened on Thursday but all eyes will be on a subject not on the agenda -- Sudan's battered Darfur province.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban  Ki-moon recommended on Tuesday peacekeeping operations of up to  11,000 personnel for Chad and the Central African Republic to  stanch the spillover from the Darfur conflict in Sudan.