West ups calls on Sudan to accept Darfur troops
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The United States and the European Union stepped up calls on Friday for Sudan to let international troops in to support African Union forces in Darfur amid growing talk of sanctions on Khartoum.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The Sudanese government faced intense Western and African Union pressure to accept additional observers and soldiers in the Darfur region, as Foreign Secretary Jack Straw of Britain flew to Sudan yesterday to urge the country to do more to disarm marauding militias.
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Sudan has urged the UN Security Council to support the African Unionâs peace efforts in resolving the crisis in its western Darfur region.
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Britain could be asked to contribute troops to a 10,000-strong UN peacekeeping force for Sudan under a draft resolution being discussed in the security council, government officials in London indicated yesterday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has ordered the military to prepare to deploy up to 3,000 soldiers to the conflict-torn Sudanese region of Darfur.
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The European Union is likely to  announce a contribution of more than 100 million euros to an  African Union force in Darfur, amid calls for extra AU soldiers  to be deployed in Sudan's troubled region.
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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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President Bush suggested Friday it may be time to send international peacekeepers into Sudan's war-torn Darfur region over the objections of the government in Khartoum.
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Sudan said Sunday it could accept up  to 4,000 African monitors of a shaky cease-fire in its western  Darfur region, where fighting has driven more than 1.5 million  people from their homes.
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The African Union plans to send more   troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended peacekeeping   mission in war-ravaged Darfur, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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Arab League secretary general Amr Mussa said he hoped the African Union would endorse the deployment of Arab troops in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan in the event of an expansion of the AU force there.
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NATO officials say they are considering a United Nations request to support a possible African Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region.
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Sudan has expressed its "total unconditional acceptance" of a hybrid international force for Darfur, but the world must keep up the pressure on Khartoum, Britain's U.N. envoy said on Tuesday.
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President George W. Bush called on  Sudan on Thursday to allow a United Nations peacekeeping  presence to help stem the violence in Darfur.
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UNITED NATIONS - The African Union communicated to the UN Thursday its decision to send an expanded force of troops and police with a broad mandate to protect aid workers, monitors and civilians in Sudanâs strife-torn Darfur region.
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Sudan's president again rejected the deployment of U.N. peacekeeping troops in the war-torn Darfur region during a meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Saturday. But one of the country's two vice presidents said he would accept international intervention.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew to Sudan on Monday to keep up international pressure on Khartoum to comply with U.N. demands to end the conflict in Darfur that has already killed up to 50,000 people.