UN Pledges Support for Sudan Peace
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The UN Security Council is urging Sudan and a southern rebel group to conclude a peace deal by the end of this year, while offering the prospect of a major infusion of aid.
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The United Nations would support peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban and is prepared to help mediate, a key U.N. envoy said Friday.
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The UN Security Council on Wednesday scrutinized Sudan&#39;s acceptance of a joint African Union-UN force to end bloodshed in Darfur, seeking assurances that Khartoum will not set unacceptable conditions on the deployment.
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NAIROBI, Kenya  - The Sudanese government and southern rebel leaders pledged again Friday to end a 21-year civil war - this time making the commitment before the UN Security Council holding a special meeting in Africa.
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Sudan agreed on Tuesday to a  combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force of  more than 20,000 troops and police to be deployed in its  troubled Darfur region after months of intense diplomacy.
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UNITED NATIONS &#151; Sudan insisted Friday that African countries have offered enough troops for a peacekeeping force in Darfur despite U.N. concerns that the mission will not be effective without specialized contributions from outside the continent.
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to hold a rare meeting in Nairobi next month to promote a peace agreement between the Sudanese government and southern rebels that the United States says also is crucial to ending the conflict in the Darfur region.
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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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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan hailed on Thursday the African Union&#39;s decision to deploy more troops and police in Sudan&#39;s trouble western region of Darfurto help improve the security conditions there.
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir welcomes U.N. support for an African Union force monitoring a widely ignored truce in Sudan's violent Darfur region, state media reported on Thursday.
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Sudan has accepted a United  Nations-African Union peacekeeping force of up to 23,000 troops  and police for Darfur but some U.N. diplomats fear conditions  may be attached.
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Parties in conflict-torn Sudan made pledges for peace before the UN Security Council, which held extraordinary sessions in Nairobi, Kenya.
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EL FASHER, Sudan -- The African Union transferred authority Monday to a new joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in Darfur that the international community hopes will stem the violence in Sudan's war-torn western region.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said  on Thursday that he hoped Sudan would soon accept U.N.  peacekeepers in Darfur and called Khartoum&#039;s continuing refusal  &quot;incomprehensible.&quot;
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The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution Thursday that would give the United Nations authority over peacekeepers in Darfur as soon as Sudan's government gives its consent &#151; which it has so far refused to do.
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Sudan agreed on Tuesday to a combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force of more than 20,000 troops and police to be deployed in its troubled Darfur region after months of intense diplomacy.
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UNITED NATIONS - The United States predicted Thursday that the Security Council will adopt its resolution on Sudan, buoyed by strong backing from Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who called for urgent UN action to stop attacks against civilians in western