U.N. Council wary on Somali call for peacekeepers
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Somalia&#39;s prime minister urged  the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to send peacekeepers to  his country, but council members told him they wanted to see  political progress toward peace first.
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UNITED NATIONS -- When African nations began urging the deployment of peacekeepers to Somalia in June to prop up its embattled government, an unlikely nation stepped forward to support their call for action: China, which had long been wary of such interventions by the United Nations.
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The U.N. Security Council  adopted a resolution on Saturday that threatens to consider oil  sanctions against Sudan if Khartoum does not stop atrocities in  the Darfur region.
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A high-level United Nations delegation arrived Tuesday in Sudan to press a reluctant government to accept a large force of U.N. peacekeepers in the strife-torn Darfur region.
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Somalia's transitional government urged the Security Council on Friday to speed up its planning for the possible deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping force to replace African Union troops in the war-wracked nation.
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The U.N. Security Council  adopted a resolution on Saturday threatening Sudan with oil  sanctions if it did not stop atrocities in the Darfur region  where Arab militias are terrorizing African villagers.
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The powerful Islamists in Somalia warn they will fight peacekeepers, after the UN backs a peace force.
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The UN Security Council Monday debated a draft resolution offered by Algeria on behalf of the Arab group of nations against Israel&#39;s military incursion into the northern Gaza Strip.
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The Security Council urged the African Union on Friday to quickly send peacekeepers to Somalia so that Ethiopia could withdraw its forces and the government could lift its emergency security measures.
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The U.N. Security Council on  Friday strongly condemned an attack by Sudanese army troops on  a peacekeeping convoy and threatened action against anyone  hindering the deployment of international peacekeepers.
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Somalia's interim government welcomed a U.S. proposal at the U.N. Security Council to deploy east African peacekeepers, but the newly powerful Islamists who have seized control of most of the country rejected it.
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Several U.N. Security Council nations expressed misgivings about a draft resolution introduced by Russia on Monday that would create a new blacklist of terrorist suspects subject to extradition.
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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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The Security Council urged the  African Union on Friday to quickly send peacekeepers to Somalia  so that Ethiopia could withdraw its forces and the government  could lift its emergency security measures.
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Somalia's powerful Islamist movement said on Thursday that U.N. endorsement of an African peacekeeping force will "add fuel to the fire" in the Horn of Africa nation that many fear is on the verge of all-out war.
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The UN special envoy for Somalia on Monday urged that the African Union (AU) contingent in the war-torn Horn of Africa country be beefed up and that a government of national unity be set up.
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The U.N. Security Council on   Thursday voted to create a United Nations peacekeeping force in   Sudan's Darfur region but troops will not be deployed without   consent from the Khartoum government.