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وكالة الأنباء السودانية: البشير ابلغ عنان وبلير اليوم رفضه القاطع لأي قوات دولية!!!!
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Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir Wednesday reiterated to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and British Prime Minister Tony Blair Sudan's refusal of deploying international peacekeepers in its western region of Darfur.
The Sudanese president reiterated the position during telephone contacts with Annan and Blair, the official SUNA news agency reported.
"Sudan's rejection of the international force subordinate to the United Nations is unchangeable," El-Bashir stressed.
He said that the African troops currently in Darfur, to be reinforced according to an understanding reached in a meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa last Thursday, must be continuously commanded by the Africans.
Expressing his welcome for the logistic and technical assistance to be provided by the UN for the African troops, El- Bashir said that the details of the reinforcement plan would be worked out by a tripartite committee formed by the Sudanese government, the African Union (AU) and the UN.
Following Thursday's meeting in Addis Ababa, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan announced that Sudan had agreed in principle on the deployment of a joint AU-UN peacekeeping force in Darfur.
But the Sudanese government has denied the agreement, saying the UN could only play an supplementary role in the reinforced African troops in the war-torn region.
Sudan has rejected a UN Security Council resolution mandating the deployment of some 20,000 peacekeepers to replace the under- funded 7,800 AU forces in Darfur, terming it a violation of Sudan's sovereignty and an effort by the West to colonize the African oil producing country.
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