US Wants Sudanese Action on Darfur Force by Year's End

The Bush administration served notice Wednesday it will take a "different approach" toward the Sudanese government if it does not take specific steps towards deploying a new international peacekeeping force in Darfur by the end of the year. Authorities in Khartoum are resisting a United Nations-backed plan for a so-called "hybrid" force of U.N. and African Union troops. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department.

Officials here are not saying what the consequences of continued Sudanese inaction might be. But they say the Bush administration has already decided on a plan of implicitly-coercive action should the Khartoum government fail to take preliminary steps to deploy the hybrid force by the end of the year.

Officials here are not saying what the consequences of continued Sudanese inaction might be. But they say the Bush administration has already decided on a plan of implicitly-coercive action should the Khartoum government fail to take preliminary steps to deploy the hybrid force by the end of the year.

By VOA News