Annan: Darfur settlement possible by year end
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A peace agreement for Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region may be possible by year end after Khartoum signed a separate deal with southern rebels, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan  - Sudan, awaiting word on whether it will be sanctioned by the international community, hopes for a "reasonable decision" from the UN Security Council, the foreign minister said Monday, the UN-imposed deadline for quelling violence in its western Darfur provinces.
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The United Nations and the  African Union were close to a deal on Wednesday on fielding  23,000 peacekeepers in Sudan&#39;s violent Darfur region, but full  deployment is not expected until next year at the earliest.
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KHARTOUM - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Sudan   on Tuesday it would be responsible for any worsening of the   humanitarian crisis in Darfur if African Union forces left   because of a standoff with Khartoum over control of the   mission.
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday there had been &quot;slow but credible&quot; progress towards peace in the strife-torn Sudanese region of Darfur over the past six months.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said that an international probe into the bloodshed in Sudan's troubled Darfur region should not delay efforts to bring an immediate end to the violence.
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NAIROBI  - UN ambassadors agreed here unanimously on the text of a resolution aimed at restoring peace to war-ravaged Sudan, as the country&#39;s main foes promised to conclude talks on their 21-year-old conflict by the end of the year.
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Darfuris who have waited  almost five years in miserable camps have high expectations for  a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force due to deploy by  the end of the year.
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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees says a complete end to violence in Sudan&#39;s western region of Darfur is needed to convince hundreds of thousands of displaced people they can eventually return to their homes.
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A top U.N. envoy said on Friday  a landmark peace agreement ending Sudan's two-decade old war in  the south would crumble if violence in Darfur persisted.
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Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Michael Ranneberger sees a &quot;historic&quot; opportunity for a peace settlement that will end Sudan&#39;s 21-year-long civil war, which has killed 2 million people and displaced millions more, and
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is supporting African Union efforts to bolster its monitoring and protection presence in Sudan&#39;s trouble Darfur region.
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UNITED NATIONS, Dec 21  - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday said he now saw brighter prospects for a long-elusive peace between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East.
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UN chief Kofi Annan warns Sudan it will be responsible for any worsening of Darfur's humanitarian crisis.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday Darfur was close to a catastrophe, as the United States sought to rebuke Sudan for trying to scare off potential U.N. troop contributors.
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Sudan&#39;s government is likely to grant some autonomy to the violence-wracked Darfur region, but the rebels should help to end the world&#39;s worst humanitarian crisis, UN High Commissioner for Refu-gees Ruud Lubbers said.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in Darfur on Wednesday that negotiators were close to setting new peace talks between the government and rebels, an essential step toward ending civilian bloodshed in the devastated region of Sudan.