Khartoum media says UN chief pleased with Darfur efforts
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Khartoum's official media reported that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan had congratulated President Omar al-Beshir on his government's efforts to resolve the crisis in Darfur as a Security Council deadline for action expired.
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The UN refugee agency's head says the Darfur conflict is a peace and security threat to Sudan's neighbours.
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KHARTOUM, Oct 24, 2004 (SUNA) -- The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mustafa Osman Ismail, has hailed the efforts being exerted by the European Union in Sudan, particularly in the fields of humanitarian aid in Darfur region.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan is sending a top aide to Sudan to press his case for  bolstering an African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur with  substantial U.N. resources, a spokesman said on Monday.
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The U.N. chief won Chad's backing for a Darfur peace conference during a visit Friday to this poverty-stricken central African nation that has become home to tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict in neighboring Sudan.
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Sudan's justice minister said he was ready to cooperate with a UN fact-finding team due to investigate human rights abuses in war-torn Darfur, newspapers have reported.
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The Netherlands, which is holding the presidency of the European Union (EU), Wednesday applauded the adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1564 on the Darfur crisis of Sudan.
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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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Sudanese President Omar Hassan  al-Bashir dismissed criticism by the U.N. secretary-general on  Friday, saying the world body was making unreasonable demands  and turning a blind eye to the activities of Darfur rebels.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - Sudan is optimistic that the  U.N. Security Council will recognize its achievements in  improving the humanitarian and security situation in troubled  Darfur, Sudan's foreign minister said Thursday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday that Sudan's government has not stopped attacks on "terrorized and traumatized" civilians in its Darfur region and urged the speedy deployment of an expanded international peacekeeping force.
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The world's aid effort after the deadly Asian tsunami is hailed by a top UN official as a great success.
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TRIPOLI, Libya &#151; After a weeklong trip to three African countries, the U.N. secretary-general said Sunday he was encouraged by "credible progress" toward settling one of the continent's bloodiest conflicts in Sudan's Darfur region.
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President Omar al-Bashir's government on Monday hailed a new agreement with the United Nations over peacekeepers in Darfur as a diplomatic breakthrough for Sudan, but said serious differences remain over the force's makeup and command.
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A top Sudanese official on  Monday praised the idea of transforming war-torn Sudan's  government into a federal system with considerable autonomy  granted to its states, including troubled Darfur.
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EL FASHER, Sudan - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said yesterday he was "shocked and humbled" by a visit to a Darfur refugee camp where thousands cheered him as he pledged to step up efforts to bring peace to the war-torn region.
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KHARTOUM, Sept 4  -- Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir declared that he was committed to resolving the crisis in the troubled western Darfur region amid international criticism that his government was not doing enough to stop what the UN has