UN chief, Sudan leader set Darfur talks
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The United Nations and the African Union have just seven weeks to persuade major rebel factions to attend new Darfur peace talks in Libya &#151; a tough job because a key rebel leader immediately rejected any negotiations until there is a cease-fire.
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Sudanese government envoys and the leaders of two rebel groups met here with African Union leaders to try to agree an agenda for talks to resolve the 18-month conflict in Darfur.
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ABUJA : Sudan will ignore a UN Security Council deadline to end militia attacks in Darfur by the end of the month and instead resolve the crisis through African Union peace talks, Khartoum&#39;s chief negotiator said.
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President Bush has proposed meeting with Sudan's president, Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan al-Bashir, as an incentive for Bashir to lift his adamant opposition to the introduction of U.N. peacekeeping forces in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, according to a Sudanese government spokesman and U.S. government...
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The UN Security Council began a two-day extraordinary session here on Thursday to push Sudan&#39;s north-south peace negotiations to a conclusion and to stop a separate bloody conflict in the western Darfur region.
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Sudan &#39;s government has said it hoped to reach a deal in talks resuming on Friday with rebels in Darfur. Majzoub al-Khalifa, head of Sudan &#39;s delegation to the African Union-sponsored talks in Abuja , said there was &quot;a lot of common ground for agreement&quot;.
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The U.N. and African Union envoys trying to promote a political solution to the four-year conflict in Darfur are inviting key regional and international parties to a mid-July meeting to discuss ways to get new peace talks started.
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UN chief Kofi Annan said that he was waiting for Khartoum to clarify contentious points of a tentative deal for a peacekeeping force in Darfur amid fears the conflict there could spiral out of control.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon  flew to Libya on Saturday for a meeting with leader Muammar  Gaddafi to discuss Libya&#39;s role as a mediator in an upcoming  Darfur peace conference.
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The U.N. Security Council demanded on Wednesday that Sudan's government and Darfur rebels attend peace talks starting over the weekend and threatened action against anyone impeding the negotiations.
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The African Union and the United Nations will chair talks in Libya to seek a "road map" for peace in Darfur.
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U.N. Security Council ambassadors  will seek confirmation of a deal for a boosted Darfur  peacekeeping force when they meet Sudanese President Omar  Hassan al-Bashir in Khartoum on Sunday.
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The United Nations and the African Union kicked off a high-level meeting on Darfur on Friday in hopes of speeding up deployment of a peacekeeping force and expanding humanitarian aid.
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All sides in the conflict in Darfur  are ready to start talks to renegotiate a year-old peace accord  rejected by many Darfuris as inadequate, the top U.N.  humanitarian chief in Sudan said on Friday.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sudan on Monday in a bid to jumpstart the peace process in strife-torn Darfur ahead of a massive joint UN-African Union peacekeeping operation.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said Thursday that new peace talks to end the four-year conflict in Darfur will start Oct. 27 in Libya.
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ABUJA: Sudan will ignore a UN Security Council deadline to end militia attacks in Darfur by the end of the month and instead resolve the crisis through African Union peace talks, Khartoumâs chief negotiator said on Thursday.