Washington adds little weight to new push on Darfur peacekeepers
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A renewed US push to end the tragedy in Sudan's Darfur region shows little promise of quick success, with Washington unwilling to put new teeth into its demand that the Khartoum government accept an aggressive UN peacekeeping force to halt the killing.
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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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The United States expressed skepticism Tuesday over Sudan&#39;s acceptance of a joint African Union-UN force to bring an end to the bloodshed in Darfur.
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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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J   an Egeland , the U.N. undersecretary for humanitarian affairs and the U.N. emergency relief coordinator, had a dual purpose for his visit to Washington this week. He told U.S. officials that American relief and food assistance has saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the Darfur region of Sudan and in Congo. But he also said there was a global trend of declining support for humanitarian efforts around the world.
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The United States modified its call for U.N. sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday but still kept up the threat of punitive measures if Khartoum did not stop atrocities in its Darfur region.
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The United States is expected to  distribute on Tuesday a revised version of its U.N. resolution  on Sudan, but retain a threat of sanctions if Khartoum does not  stop atrocities in its Darfur region, diplomats 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 Bush administration has begun quietly urging Arab countries to help overcome Sudan's resistance to deploying 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers and police to the troubled Darfur region, the new U.S. special envoy for Sudan said Wednesday
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U.S. lawmakers who met with Darfur rebels in western Sudan and visited camps for Sudanese refugees in Chad over the weekend said they will be ask Washington to push for U.N. sanctions against the Sudanese government.
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The United States on Monday circulated a draft U.N. resolution that would send as many as 10,000 peacekeepers to southern Sudan but dodges the question of where to try perpetrators of atrocities in Darfur.
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A U.S.-British-drafted   resolution to create a United Nations peacekeeping force in   Sudan's Darfur region faces a vote on Thursday but troops will   not be deployed without consent from the Khartoum government.
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The United States and Denmark sought   on Friday to increase world pressure on Sudan to accept U.N.   peacekeepers in war-torn Darfur, warning that time was running   out as Khartoum launched a new offensive there.
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The White House told Congress Friday that Iraqi leaders have gained little new ground toward meeting key military and political goals, a discouraging assessment a day after President Bush said that progress justifies a large continued U.S. military presence there.
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Warring parties in Sudan's western Darfur region are showing no urgency in the search for a political solution to a conflict that has caused a humanitarian catastrophe, the top U.N. envoy in Sudan said Wednesday.
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Bringing peace to Darfur will not be easy but a joint U.N.-African Union force should be much more effective than the AU peacekeepers currently struggling to hold the ring, the new force commander said on Thursday.
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Washington is unlikely to support fully a U.N. appeal for more than 13,000 additional troops for the troubled U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo but no decision has been made, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.