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The Summit on Darfur-- Mixed Results
Jul-2-06 07:05 pm
With the Hamdan decision and other developments this week, it is far to easy to forget the tumultuous situation on the ground on Darfur. The BBC is reporting good and bad news about the results from the AU summit:
African Union (AU) troops will stay in Sudan's Darfur region until the end of 2006 at the United Nations' request, the union's summit has agreed.

However, Sudanese leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir refused a UN request to allow its peacekeepers into Sudan.

The AU originally planned to pull its troops, who are overseeing a ceasefire after three years of conflict, out of the troubled region in September.

The BBC reports that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has not given up hope that UN forces may ultimately be deployed to the region:

"In the world of politics, things change. We hear 'never,' 'forever,' and yet it does come around," he said.

And so I'm still expecting that in time there will be a UN peacekeeping force deployed to Darfur.

It is a good thing that AU peacekeepers will continue, but a more robust, UN force is needed to attempt to provide more security to the region. One can only hope the Sudan will come around.
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