Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Sudan says no to UN forces

Khartoum - Sudan renewed its opposition to the deployment of international forces in Darfur and denied giving the African Union the green light to hand over its mandate to the United Nations.

Presidential adviser Majzoub al-Khalifa Ahmed said: "We have expressed our opposition to deployment in Darfur of international forces.

"We have made it clear to the UN mission that we have not ordered the AU to hand the mandate it has been accorded over to any other authority, and that the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) has not provided for a UN role." Read more >>>

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