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Article: 1st LD Writethru: AU leader says Sudanese government's approval precondition for peacekeeping mission in Darfur
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- September 26, 2006
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1st LD Writethru: AU leader says Sudanese government's approval
precondition for peacekeeping mission in Darfur
CARACAS, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- The deployment of any peacekeeping
forces in Sudan's Darfur should get the permission from the Sudanese
government first, said visiting African Union (AU) Commission
Chairman Alpha Oumar Konare on Monday.
"No soldiers should go to Sudan without the permission of the
Sudanese government because it's not about making war with the
Sudanese people but helping them," he told the Caracas-based
television station Telesur here.
His remarks came as Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed el-
Bashir accused Washington of using the Darfur issue to re-colonize ...