France is holding a 15 nation conference in Paris to try and figure out what to do about Darfur. The African Union is not attending.
Khartoum is boycotting the conference, angry that it was not consulted during preparations for the meeting and arguing that the French initiative will unnecessarily duplicate efforts by the UN and the AU.
The African Union is also staying away, sceptical about the meeting’s purpose and miffed at being kept out of the planning.
With Paris, Beijing and Washington apparently on the same page, the new international push could see Khartoum come under pressure to deliver on its promise to allow a 23,000-strong peace force to be dispatched to Darfur and to re-start peace negotiations with the rebel groups.
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France is holding a 15 nation conference in Paris to try and figure out what to do about Darfur. The African Union is not attending.
Khartoum is boycotting the conference, angry that it was not consulted during preparations for the meeting and arguing that the French initiative will unnecessarily duplicate efforts by the UN and the AU.
The African Union is also staying away, sceptical about the meeting’s purpose and miffed at being kept out of the planning.
With Paris, Beijing and Washington apparently on the same page, the new international push could see Khartoum come under pressure to deliver on its promise to allow a 23,000-strong peace force to be dispatched to Darfur and to re-start peace negotiations with the rebel groups.
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