U.N. envoys to press Bashir on Darfur force command
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U.N. Security Council members landed  in Khartoum on Sunday looking for assurances for speedy  deployment of at least 20,000 U.N. and African Union police and  troops to Sudan&#39;s violent Darfur region.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will urge the world body's Human Rights Council to hold a special session on violations in Sudan's strife-torn region of Darfur, warning that the Council's reputation is at stake.
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The UN envoy to Sudan urged the government to accept an international monitoring force with more than 3,000 troops to help prevent escalating militia attacks in the violence-wracked Darfur region.
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Sudan may consent to a U.N.   peacekeeping force in its Darfur region sooner than expected   once the Security Council adopts a resolution authorizing it,   U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said on Wednesday.
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The U.N. Security Council said Monday it would speedily consider sending peacekeepers to Sudan to support a new peace deal and urged the new government of national unity to work actively to end the conflict in western Darfur.
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U.N. Security Council members on Sunday said they had assurances from Sudan that command and control of a joint African Union-U.N. force in Darfur would be under the world body.
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The U.N. Security Council demanded on Wednesday that Sudan's government and Darfur rebels attend peace talks starting over the weekend and threatened action against anyone impeding the negotiations.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called Sudan's agreement on a large force for Darfur "a milestone," but U.N. envoys acknowledged challenges on command structures and finding enough troops.
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Sudan will announce a cease-fire at the start of talks with rebel groups on Oct. 27 aimed at ending the conflict in Darfur, the country's U.N. ambassador said Monday.
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The U.N. human rights chief on Wednesday urged the Security Council to immediately refer abuses in Darfur to the International Criminal Court, while Kofi Annan called for "urgent action" to end the violence in the vast region in western Sudan.
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Sudan will come under pressure at a tripartite meeting in Addis Ababa next week to allow the deployment of a joint African Union-UN force in Darfur, a senior UN official said Wednesday.
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The U.N. Security Council will  recommend that the world body fund a joint African Union-U.N.  peacekeeping mission for Darfur, after receiving assurances it  would be controlled by the U.N, envoys said on Sunday.
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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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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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Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir   on Thursday accused the United Nations of having a hidden   agenda in its bid to deploy U.N. peacekeepers to Darfur, saying   the aim was to "recolonize" his country.
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UN and African Union officials will travel to Darfur this week to try to convince key rebel leaders to join peace talks aimed at resolving the crisis in the Sudanese province, the AU said Monday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday demanded speedy prosecution of Sudanese officials and militiamen guilty of crimes against humanity in Darfur, as members of the Security Council came under renewed pressure to put teeth into threats punish those responsible.