U.N. Weighs Peacekeepers for South Sudan
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The United States circulated a draft U.N. resolution on Monday calling for a 10,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission to help enforce a peace deal in southern Sudan, but it stopped short of saying how war crimes suspects in the separate conflict in Darfur should be tried.
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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's Darfur region in Chad and the Central African Republic.
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The United States proposed on  Monday a draft U.N. Security Council resolution on a  peacekeeping force in southern Sudan and sanctions in Darfur.  Following are highlights of the eight-page measure that may be  voted on within two weeks.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan pressed Sudan&#039;s president Sunday to accept U.N. peacekeepers in the country&#039;s war-wracked Darfur region and said he expected the troops to be deployed there despite staunch government opposition.
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The U.N. Security Council will  recommend that the world body fund a joint African Union-U.N.  peacekeeping mission for Darfur, after receiving assurances it  would be controlled by the U.N, envoys said on Sunday.
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The U.N. Security Council yesterday approved a long-sought resolution that would place an expanded peacekeeping force in Sudan's troubled Darfur region under U.N. authority, even as the government appeared to have begun a new offensive against rebel forces.
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The U.N. Security Council will recommend that the world body fund a joint African Union-U.N. peacekeeping mission for Darfur, after receiving assurances it would be controlled by the U.N, envoys said on Sunday.
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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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The UN Security Council is set to vote on deploying 17,000-strong peacekeeping force seen as crucial to the success of a fragile peace agreement holding in Sudan's Darfur region.
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The UN Security Council held private talks on a proposal to deploy a robust UN force in Sudan's Darfur region with the expectation of Khartoum's consent and decided to vote on it.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and members of the U.N. Security Council took turns Monday demanding swift intervention to ease the mounting humanitarian crisis in Darfur, but the Sudanese government again resisted a U.N. peacekeeping force.
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NAIROBI  - The UN Security Council will hold a rare meeting outside its New York base this week to focus on Sudan amid mounting alarm over the crisis in Darfur and little sign of an immediate breakthrough in peace talks between Khartoum and southern
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The U.N. Security Council on   Thursday voted to create a United Nations peacekeeping force in   Sudan's Darfur region to avert a new humanitarian disaster, but   the Khartoum government rejected the resolution as "illegal."
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 18 -- The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Saturday threatening possible sanctions against Sudan and establishing a U.N. commission of inquiry to investigate atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, and to determine whether Sudanese authorities and militias are responsible for committing genocide there.
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A U.S.-British-drafted   resolution to create a United Nations peacekeeping force in   Sudan's Darfur region faces a vote on Thursday but troops will   not be deployed without consent from the Khartoum government.
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The U.N. chief in Sudan said Thursday the government is unlikely to let U.N. peacekeepers in the country anytime soon, and the international community should instead push for the African Union force to remain in the war-torn region indefinitely.
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UNITED NATIONS - The African Union communicated to the UN Thursday its decision to send an expanded force of troops and police with a broad mandate to protect aid workers, monitors and civilians in Sudanâs strife-torn Darfur region.