France, Britain push for quick U.N. move on Darfur
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Britain and France said on Friday they would push for the U.N. Security Council to quickly authorise thousands of troops and police for Darfur and told Khartoum to act fast on the crisis or face more sanctions.
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France, the United States, China and some 15 other nations open a conference in Paris on Monday to shore up international efforts to end the bloodshed in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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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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The European Union took the first step  on Monday towards sending forces to Chad and the Central  African Republican to help the United Nations protect refugees  trapped in the violent region bordering Darfur.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Britain&#39;s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew to Sudan Monday, part of a stepped-up world diplomatic offensive to end the humanitarian crisis in troubled Darfur.
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The new leaders of the UK and France say they are prepared to go to Darfur to help peace efforts.
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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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Britain and the United States  introduced a Security Council resolution on Thursday to send  some 17,000 U.N. peacekeepers to Sudan's Darfur region, despite  opposition from the Khartoum government.
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Sudan on Wednesday to quickly approve the makeup of a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, but Khartoum faulted donor states for delaying its deployment.
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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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The United States and Denmark sought  on Friday to increase world pressure on Sudan to accept U.N.  peacekeepers in war-torn Darfur, warning that time was running  out as Khartoum launched a new offensive there.
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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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The United Nations and European Union were urged today to muster a more effective international response to the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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BRITAIN&#39;S Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew to Sudan today, stepping up international pressure on the government there to tackle the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Darfur.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the 15-member U.N. Security Council on Monday to move quickly in authorizing up to 26,000 troops and police in Darfur, an apparent reference to a dispute among members.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged world powers Monday to take a tough line with Sudan if it balks at efforts to end bloodshed in Darfur, and argued that ignoring the situation was tantamount to complicity.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy made their case for how to resolve the crisis in Darfur in a comment piece released on Thursday.