Sudan welcomes U.N. support for AU Darfur force
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir welcomes U.N. support for an African Union force monitoring a widely ignored truce in Sudan's violent Darfur region, state media reported on Thursday.
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The Security Council on Wednesday welcomed Sudan&#39;s nod for a joint African Union-UN force to end bloodshed in Darfur and urged &quot;timely and full implementation&quot; of the deal, after getting assurances that Khartoum means business.
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Sudan has urged the UN Security Council to support the African Unionâs peace efforts in resolving the crisis in its western Darfur region.
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The U.N. Security Council gave  preliminary support on Monday to a proposed peace force  spearheaded by European Union troops to tackle spillover  violence from Sudan&#39;s Darfur region in Chad and the Central  African Republic.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad will back United Nations moves to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region by allowing international peacekeepers on its own soil and supporting peace talks, President Idriss Deby said on Friday.
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Sudan backed a plan to keep African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Darfur amid a flurry of intense diplomatic activity here to end the bloodshed in the Sudanese western region.
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The Sudanese government, which fought efforts to bring international peacekeepers to the devastated Darfur region, seems to be cooperating as the United Nations-mandated force takes shape, a top U.N. official said Friday.
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The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution Thursday that would give the United Nations authority over peacekeepers in Darfur as soon as Sudan's government gives its consent &#151; which it has so far refused to do.
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A UN envoy welcomes a move to deploy  African troops to Sudan's Darfur region, but says more are needed.
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The United States pressed Sudan on  Monday to accept a U.N. force in its troubled Darfur region, as  U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Khartoum its military  bombardment of the region was illegal.
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Sudan said Thursday it would permit the U.N. to lay the groundwork for possible deployment of a peacekeeping force in Darfur, but cautioned that the world body&#039;s role would be smaller than some Security Council members want.
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UN officials in Sudan said Friday that they hope an expanded AU force will be deployed in Darfur by the end of the month, after Sudan&#39;s foreign minister agreed to allow in 3,500 forces.
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UNITED NATIONS, June 12 -- Sudan agreed Tuesday to an expanded peacekeeping force in the Darfur region, according to a communique approved by negotiators from Sudan, the United Nations and the African Union.
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President Omar al-Bashir's government on Monday hailed a new agreement with the United Nations over peacekeepers in Darfur as a diplomatic breakthrough for Sudan, but said serious differences remain over the force's makeup and command.
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Sudan agreed on Tuesday to a  combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force of  more than 20,000 troops and police to be deployed in its  troubled Darfur region after months of intense diplomacy.
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Sudan and the United Nations have agreed on key elements of a joint African Union-U.N. peacekeeping force for Darfur, including that its commander will be African, a U.N. diplomat said Sunday.
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Sudan's president is sending a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressing his commitment to the deployment of several thousand U.N. peacekeepers to help end the violence in Darfur, Sudan's U.N. envoy said Friday.