U.S. seeks U.N. backing for Somalia peacekeeping force
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The United States will endorse African peacekeepers to help prop up Somalia's shaky interim government in a draft resolution to be unveiled on Friday, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said.
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The international community is willing to help Somalia as long as there is "progress on the ground," the United Nations' political chief said during a four-hour trip to the Somali capital.
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The U.N. Security Council  authorized an African Union peacekeeping mission for Somalia  for six months on Tuesday as mortar attacks pounded the capital  and the northeast African country spiraled further into chaos.
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The United States called Monday for the quick deployment of an expanded U.N. force in southern Lebanon and said a new U.N. resolution may be needed later to focus on disarming Hezbollah militants and enforcing an arms embargo.
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Somalia's interim prime minister called on the United Nations to partially lift an arms embargo on his country to allow for the deployment of African peacekeepers, which he said are necessary to stop the advance of Islamic radicals.
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A Somali Islamist group threatened on Tuesday to fight any peacekeeping troops sent to their country as African leaders struggled to put together an international force for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation.
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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 United States on Monday  circulated a draft U.N. resolution calling for a large  peacekeeping force in southern Sudan but dodged the question of  what kind of court should try war criminals in Darfur.
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Sudan may consent to a U.N.   peacekeeping force sooner than expected once the Security   Council adopts a resolution authorizing the operation, U.S.   Ambassador John Bolton said on Wednesday.
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Somalia's interim government welcomed a U.S. proposal at the U.N. Security Council to deploy east African peacekeepers in the violent state, as residents said on Saturday that rival Islamists had seized another town.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday she pressed Sudan's government to accept a U.N. force in the war-torn region of Darfur, warning improved U.S. relations depended on it.
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The United Nations urgently needs  international support to boost its presence in Somalia and  restore basic services, or the country could collapse into  chaos, U.N. aid officials said on Monday.
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Somalia's new president  asks the African Union to send 20,000 peacekeepers to secure the country.
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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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An African Union team visits Somalia on Monday to test the waters for deploying a peacekeeping force.
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The United States and other nations  are prepared to help move an expanded African peacekeeping  force into position in Sudan's Darfur region to halt the  bloodshed, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said on  Sunday.
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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.