Plans ready for U.N. Darfur force but not deployment
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The United Nations and the  African Union were close to a deal on Wednesday on fielding  23,000 peacekeepers in Sudan&#39;s violent Darfur region, but full  deployment is not expected until next year at the earliest.
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The new United Nations peacekeeping force for Darfur in Sudan is due to start its operations on Monday.
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Sudan's president rejected a proposal yesterday to send UN peacekeepers to Darfur to boost a beleaguered 7,000-member African Union force, crushing hopes for a quick solution to the violence spreading across central Africa. Sudan, the UN, and the AU had agreed to a hybrid mission, but there was confusion, with some Sudanese officials saying they only want ...
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The United States on Monday  circulated a draft U.N. resolution that would send as many as  10,000 peacekeepers to southern Sudan but dodges the question  of where to try perpetrators of atrocities in Darfur.
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The United Nations and the African Union drew up plans for a peacekeeping force for Darfur of more than 23,000 troops, police and other personnel to protect civilians and be able to use force to deter violence.
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Sudan has backed away from a warning to dozens of countries not to pledge troops to a U.N. force for Darfur, the United States said on Friday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will press for speedy deployment of a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force in Darfur and a quick start to new peace talks to end the four-year conflict there during his visit to Sudan starting Monday.
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The U.N. Security Council on   Thursday voted to create a United Nations peacekeeping force in   Sudan's Darfur region to avert a new humanitarian disaster, but   the Khartoum government rejected the resolution as "illegal."
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The U.N. Security Council is expected to authorize up to 26,000 troops and police for Darfur but implementation will take months providing the world body finds enough personnel and Sudan cooperates.
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The hybrid UN-African peace force due to deploy in weeks to Darfur in Sudan is "being set up to fail", a report warns.
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The government of Chad has refused to allow the United Nations to send an advance mission to prepare for the possible deployment of U.N. peacekeepers, a setback to plans to help thousands of civilians caught in the spillover of the Darfur conflict in neighboring Sudan.
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The U.N. chief in Sudan said Thursday the government is unlikely to let U.N. peacekeepers in the country anytime soon, and the international community should instead push for the African Union force to remain in the war-torn region indefinitely.
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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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The United Nations handed over to Sudan on Friday detailed plans for a Darfur peacekeeping force of more than 23,000 troops and police to protect civilians and use force to deter violence.
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UNITED NATIONS, March 13 -- Sudan's president has rejected the core elements of a plan to send U.N. peacekeepers to Darfur to help protect civilians from a government-backed campaign of violence.
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Sudan does not object to the deployment of more foreign cease-fire monitors and protection troops in crisis-torn Darfur, Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said Saturday.
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The African Union has objected to a proposal for a 23,000-strong AU-U.N. force to help end the bloodshed in Sudan's troubled Darfur region because it would give the United Nations command and control, U.N. diplomats said.