U.N. demands Darfur parties attend talks
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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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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged  the Security Council on Sunday to consider sanctions against  Sudan for "gross violations of human rights" in Darfur.
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The U.N. envoy to Sudan pressed the government to accept an international monitoring force of more than 3,000 troops to help prevent escalating militia attacks in the Darfur region.
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Actions demanded by U.N. human rights mission on Sudan's Darfur region:
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SIRTE, Libya  - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pledged on Saturday to gather as many Darfur rebel groups as possible for peace talks with Khartoum due to be held in Libya next month, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
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Participants at a UN-sponsored high-level meeting here Friday urged all Darfur rebel groups to attend crucial peace talks with Khartoum scheduled in Libya next month or face sanctions.
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UN Security Council envoys are to meet Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to discuss deploying troops in Darfur.
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Sudan's ongoing violence, worsening humanitarian crisis and struggling peace processes topped the agenda as members of the U.N. Security Council began meetings in Nairobi on Thursday.
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The UN Security Council said it would hold a meeting on the tense situation in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region next Monday following the ambush killing of two Rwandan peacekeepers there.
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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 is ready to attend Darfur peace talks under joint U.N.-African Union mediation to resolve a conflict which has driven 2.5 million people from their homes, its foreign minister said on Monday.
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Sudan has left a 'tiny' window open  for negotiation on accepting U.N. troops in its violent Darfur  region, the top U.N. envoy in Khartoum said on Wednesday.
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Sudan&#039;s two ruling parties are divided  over sending U.N. forces to its violent Darfur region despite  three days of direct talks aimed at tackling the thorniest  issues facing the country.
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Pushed to end what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis, envoys of Sudan's government gathered in Nigeria on Monday for talks with rebel leaders in Sudan's bloodied western Darfur region.
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His time at the helm of the world body nearing an end, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan stepped up his efforts Tuesday to force a halt to atrocities in Darfur, demanding the U.N. Human Rights Council send an independent team of investigators to the volatile Sudanese region.
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The United Nations urged warring   groups in Darfur on Thursday to lay down their weapons during   the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to let relief workers operate   in Sudan's battered west.
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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.