Britain rules out deploying troops to strife-torn Darfur
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stressed 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 presence in the region.
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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 will push for tougher U.N.  sanctions against Sudan if its government does not support  international efforts to end the conflict in Darfur, Foreign  Secretary Margaret Beckett said on Tuesday.
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Sudan denied Wednesday that its army opened fire on a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers attacked in Darfur barely a week into their new mission.
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Britain and the United States  called for a vote on Thursday on a U.N. resolution to allow the  United Nations to begin assembling a peacekeeping force for  Sudan's Darfur region, despite opposition from the government  in Khartoum.
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Imposing UN sanctions against Sudan to force the government to protect the endangered civilians of the war torn Darfur region could backfire with the government withdrawing its cooperation, a British minister said on Monday.
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Sudan will not accept a peacekeeping force in the troubled Darfur region but may agree to extra monitors being deployed, its foreign minister says.
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A U.S.-British draft resolution introduced Thursday would transfer peacekeeping in Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region from the African Union to a much larger U.N. force despite strong oppositon from Sudan.
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Sudan&#39;s foreign minister says the government will not accept UN peacekeepers in the Darfur region, the BBC reports. About 50,000 people have been killed in the area in the
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The United Nations Security Council is unlikely to impose heavy sanctions on Sudan, even if Khartoum fails to meet the body's demands to rein in marauding militiamen in Darfur, a senior British official said Friday.
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The British government Monday rejected claims it was planning to put some of its troops under US command as a political show of support for President Bush ahead of the presidential election.
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Sudan rejected an offer of African troops  to disarm rebels in Darfur as peace talks began in Nigeria,  insisting it was capable of neutralizing both pro-government  and rebel militia fighting in the western region.
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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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British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned Sudan on Wednesday violence must end in Darfur and the United Nations said it might not be able to cope if conditions there fail to improve.
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ABUJA, Nigeria Aug. 23, 2004 - A senior Sudanese official on Monday rejected an immediate wider role for African Union troops in the troubled Darfur region, saying security there was the responsibility of Sudanese forces.
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British military chiefs have been told to get ready for sending thousands of troops to the troubled region of Darfur in Sudan in 2005, the Independent newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Britain will push for tougher U.N. sanctions against Sudan if its government does not support international efforts to end the conflict in Darfur, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said on Tuesday.