Ban Urges UN Darfur Action as U.S. Faces Resistance
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Bloomberg - July 16 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations should authorize a peacekeeping force for Darfur within days, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said amid opposition to a U.S.-backed measure that would send 24,000 soldiers and police to western Sudan.
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The United States and others will consider imposing punitive measures on Sudan for its refusal to allow an international force into the devastated Darfur region, the State Department said on Tuesday.
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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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Sudan blunted U.S. pressure to accept  U.N. troops in Darfur, sidelining Washington's top diplomat on  Africa on Monday ahead of a critical U.N. Security Council  debate on taming Sudan's violent western region.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- The UN Security Council should impose sanctions on Sudan's government and enforce an arms embargo on pro-government Arab militias accused of ethnic cleansing in the country's Darfur region, a human rights group and aid agencies said yesterday.
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Amnesty International urged the U.N.  Security Council on Tuesday to impose a mandatory arms embargo  on Sudan to stop all parties to the conflict in Darfur  committing human rights abuses.
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The United States and its allies  are expected to face opposition from Russia and China in the  U.N. Security Council for targeted sanctions to pressure  government, militia and rebel forces to end the bloodshed in  Sudan's Darfur region.
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Secretary of State Powell Thursday called the Darfur situation &#39;genocide&#39; and urged the UN to take action. By Danna Harman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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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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The US today drafted a resolution to the UN security council, threatening Sudan with sanctions on its oil output if does not rein in Arab militia fighters in the Darfur region.
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The United States pressed Sudan on  Monday to accept a U.N. force in its troubled Darfur region, as  U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Khartoum its military  bombardment of the region was illegal.
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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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One of western Sudan's main rebel movements urged the United Nations on Thursday to go through with threatened sanctions on Sudan, and warned it would resume fighting in Darfur if attacked.
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Human Rights Watch urged the United  Nations Security Council on Thursday to impose targeted  sanctions on Sudan if it fails to stop attacks on civilians in  Darfur or disrupts the work of a planned peacekeeping force.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell called atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region genocide and demanded a UN probe into the crisis, hastening moves toward sanctions on Khartoum.
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The United Nations secretary-general has urged the Security Council to take immediate action over a US draft resolution on Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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The United States put forward a new draft UN resolution on Tuesday, threatening to impose sanctions on Sudan&#39;s oil industry if the Sudanese government fails to end the bloodshed in its troubled Darfur region.