Britain says backs U.S. over sanctions on Sudan
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Britain &quot;fully supports&quot; U.S. efforts  to toughen U.N. Security Council sanctions against Sudan  because of the situation in Darfur, a British official  traveling with Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday.
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Britain on Wednesday backed a U.S. call  to the United Nations to freeze the assets of a London-based  Saudi dissident who Washington says has provided support for al  Qaeda.
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KHARTOUM, Aug 23  - British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stressed here late Monday that his country had no plans to deploy troops to the troubled western region of Sudan, but said that Britain stood ready to support the African Union military
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The United States is pushing for an expanded African Union force to monitor the cease-fire in Sudan's troubled Darfur region and will support sanctions against Khartoum if the government resists, U.S. Ambassador John Danforth said.
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Britain has drafted a Security Council resolution authorizing the joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force for Darfur approved by Khartoum and warning of possible sanctions if the Sudanese parties failed to cooperate, diplomats said Wednesday.
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UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Saturday threatening sanctions against Sudan unless it acts to rein in Arab militias accused of violence in Darfur that the United States has called genocide...
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Sudan believes fresh U.S. economic sanctions will have minimal impact in Khartoum because the country has no direct trade ties with the United States, a senior Sudanese Finance Ministry official said on Wednesday.
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Britain backs bids by Brazil, Germany, India and Japan for permanent seats on the UN Security Council, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said.
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UNITED NATIONS/KHARTOUM, Sudan  - The United  States piled pressure on Sudan Wednesday to accept a more  powerful monitoring force in Darfur with a new U.N. draft  resolution threatening sanctions on its oil industry.
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The United States circulated a draft UN resolution on Wednesday that would back a beefed-up monitoring force for Sudan&#39;s conflict
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UNITED NATIONS : The United States said it will push for a vote on its UN resolution on the bloodshed in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, and offered strong words in the face of a possible veto from China.
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Britain and the United States must stop   making threats over the crisis in Sudan's vast Darfur region   because the government in Khartoum knows they can't back them   up with action, a leading British diplomat said on Friday.
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Britain launched a last-ditch bid to muster support for its plan to rid Africa of poverty despite a flat rejection by the United States in talks among the Group of Seven industrial powers on Saturday.
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The United States modified its  call for U.N. sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday but still kept  up the threat of punitive measures if Khartoum did not stop  atrocities in its Darfur region.
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The United States will slap fresh sanctions on Sudan over the Darfur conflict on Tuesday and seek a tough new UN Security Council resolution punishing Khartoum, top US officials said late Monday.
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Britain applauded a U.S. decision Thursday to target Iran with banking sanctions, but many European financial institutions already curbed ties with Tehran and analysts said it wasn't clear whether others would rush to take similar steps.
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The US President George W. Bush has signed a bill that allows him to impose sanctions on Sudan to protest the violence in the western region of Darfur.