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KHARTOUM (AFP) - The Sudanese government renewed its opposition to a proposed 20,000-strong hybrid African Union- United Nations peacekeeping force for Darfur after talks with a visiting Chinese envoy Sunday.

"The government has agreed on a combined operation and not joint forces for containing the crisis in Darfur," said presidential adviser Majzoub al-Khalifa Ahmed after the talks with Liu Guijin, the Chinese foreign ministry's Africa director.

"The government also agreed to the UN heavy support package to the African Union to help resolve the conflict," Ahmed added, referring to UN plans to provide logistical support to the overstretched 7,000-strong African Union force currently in place in Darfur.

A three-phase plan floated last year by then UN chief Kofi Annan is supposed to culminate in the deployment of UN peacekeepers to bolster the embattled African force in Darfur, a region the size of France.

But Khartoum has accepted only the first two stages of the plan, accusing the Western powers of plotting to recolonize the country under the guise of the UN mission.

Analysts say the Sudanese government is worried that a robust UN force might lead to the detention of senior officials who have been implicated in human rights abuses in Darfur.

At least 200,000 people have died in the western region and more than two million more fled their homes since ethnic minority rebels rose up three years ago drawing a scorched earth response from the military and allied militias.

China -- Sudan's major trade partner -- has drawn mounting Western criticism in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics over its failure to do more to rein in its ally.