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/ 19 December 2006
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, who leaves office in less than two weeks, is making a last-ditch effort to convince Sudan to accept a much stronger peacekeeping force in Darfur. Annan is sending a top aide, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, to Khartoum on Wednesday to pin down the government’s position on his proposal to build up the African Union mission already in Darfur.
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/ 7 December 2006
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday endorsed African peacekeepers to help prop up the interim government in chaotic Somalia but also urged the authorities to pursue peace talks with their Islamist rivals. A resolution adopted by the 15-nation council said Somalia’s transitional federal government offered ”the only route to achieving peace and stability”.
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/ 14 November 2006
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan intends to propose a ”hybrid” African Union-UN force for Darfur in talks with Sudanese officials and has invited major powers to take part. Sudan has been adamantly opposed to a UN force so the UN is considering alternatives to get a larger and better-funded peacekeeping operation acceptable to Khartoum.
The United States and Britain plan to push for a vote on a United Nations resolution sending peacekeeping troops to Darfur, despite a fresh rejection by Sudan on Tuesday of any deployment of UN troops there. The US and British sponsored resolution would authorise the deployment of 20 000 UN troops and police in Darfur to take over from about 7 000 African Union troops.
A key United Nations Security Council member said on Monday he was puzzled by an Arab League request for an indefinite delay in a planned council meeting on the crisis in Darfur. Ghanaian UN ambassador Nana Effah-Apenteng, the Security Council president for August, said he got a positive response when he asked the Arab League about the meeting last week.