(KUNA) -- The Sudanese First Deputy President Salva Kiir Myardit Saturday officially announced his approval over deployment of international forces in the western troubled Darfur region despite President Umar Al-Bashir's opposing stance. Kiir was quoted by the local media today saying the popular movement, as partner in government, is not opposed to having international troops in Darfur and that this stance was announced for sometime now. There is no point or prestige, he said, in opposing UN forces while both sides have already agreed to this point virtue of the peace agreement for the south and all Sudanese regions.Kiir noted the UN forces that would come to Darfur would have the same duties that were entrusted to the forces in southern Sudan. Those forces, he added, have not yet violated their mandate. Kiir said it is the President who is the one responsible and the one to answer to questions why UN presence in Darfur is opposed.