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Sudan threatens to terminate Darfur peacekeeping mission

Global Arab Network - - Ahmed Rashid

Wednesday, 03 August 2011 01:41

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Global Arab Network - Sudan's foreign minister said that any attempt to "impose new commitments" on the UN peacekeeping force in Darfur, under its new mandate, would force the government to terminate the mission.

"Any attempt to impose new commitments different to those already agreed (for the peacekeeping mission in Darfur)... will free the Sudanese government from its commitment to accepting the mission and its deployment," Ali Ahmed Karti said in a statement obtained by AFP.

"Such a resolution will force the government to reject the mission and terminate its duty," he added.

His comments came shortly after the foreign ministry, in a separate statement, strongly criticised a UN Security Council resolution extending the mandate of the hybrid UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region (UNAMID) for one year.(AFP)

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