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Annan favors UN peace keeping in Darfur, but against imposing colonial rule
 UN Secretary-Generall Kofi Annan said Thursday that a UN peace keeping force will be needed for Darfur to help the parties implement the peace agreement and help provide security for the internally displaced. He added that though agreement by the Sudanese government has not been reached yet on a UN force but the talks continue and expressed hope that the Sudanese government will accept a UN peace keeping force. "No one and least of all the UN is interested in imposing anything like a colonial rule on one of its member states, of course this was one of the fears Sudanese President Bashir used in rejecting a UN presence," he added. The African Union Force (AUF), he added, must be strengthened on the ground and that it would transition from an AUF to a UN force while retaining some of the African Union forces. . He added that the international community must exert pressure on the parties who have signed the agreement to honor and implement it in good faith and continue pressure on the rebels and parties outside the agreement to join it, and really press them to honor it in good faith. Posted by: Fred 2006-06-23 |
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