Britain rules out deploying troops to strife-torn Darfur
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stressed that his country had no plans to deploy troops to the troubled western region of Sudan, but said that Britain stood ready to support the African Union military presence in the region.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew to Sudan on Monday to keep up international pressure on Khartoum to comply with U.N. demands to end the conflict in Darfur that has already killed up to 50,000 people.
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Sudan dismissed on Thursday British Prime Minister Tony Blair's threats of sanctions and a "no-fly zone" over Darfur and said it welcomed a U.N. mission in the region "as long as it reflects the reality on the ground".
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Sudan has backed away from a  warning to dozens of countries not to pledge troops to a U.N.  force for Darfur, the United States said on Friday.
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Sudan&#39;s government on Saturday ruled out discussion of an African Union proposal to send peacekeepers into the conflict-ridden Darfur region during the latest peace talks with rebels.
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Britain&#39;s Prime Minister Gordon Brown on  Sunday pledged technical support for peacekeepers due to go to  Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, but warned Khartoum of possible further  sanctions if it failed to make &quot;necessary changes.&quot;
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The United Nations Security Council is unlikely to impose heavy sanctions on Sudan even if Khartoum fails to meet the body&#39;s demands to rein in marauding militiamen in Darfur, a senior British official has said.
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France and Britain will push for a U.N. resolution to dispatch African Union and United Nations peacekeepers to Darfur, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday.
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Sudan rejected an African Union demand that it pull back its forces from positions seized during its latest two-week-old offensive against rebels in the Darfur region, pushing peace talks to the brink of collapse.
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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 British government underlined on Thursday that it will not "cut and run" from Iraq following that country's election this month, denying reports that London is pushing Washington to set a timetable for withdrawing coalition troops.
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British troops in Iraq will not be redeployed to Baghdad or the restive Sunni Muslim stronghold of Fallujah after it was confirmed that the United States has requested London to move its soldiers to the US-controlled sector, a defence ministry spokesman said.
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WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell ruled out the introduction of US troops in the beleagured Darfur region of Sudan, saying the United States would pursue a strategy of pressuring the Sudanese government âvery hardâ in the UN Security
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The US and Britain are considering enforcing a no-fly zone over Sudan's war-torn Darfur region if the Khartoum government does not allow a UN-led peacekeeping force in, the State Department said.
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During peace negotiations earlier today, the Sudanese government refused foreign troop deployments in Darfur, west of Sudan. The Sudanese Minister of Agriculture, Mazjub Al-Halifa Ahmed, is the government&#39;s representative in peace talks.
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Sudan rejected an offer of African troops  to disarm rebels in Darfur as peace talks began in Nigeria,  insisting it was capable of neutralizing both pro-government  and rebel militia fighting in the western region.
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LONDON  - A majority of United Nations Security Council members opposes immediate heavy sanctions on Sudan if it fails to quell ethnic violence in the Darfur region by the end of the month, Britain's Foreign Office said Friday.