Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Sanctions still on the table over Darfur

PARIS (Jun 26, 2007)

The world must be ready to impose sanctions on Sudan if it reneges on its pledge to let more peacekeeping forces into ravaged Darfur, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday.

The Sudanese government has agreed to a larger force aimed at stopping four years of killing. But Rice sounded a note of caution amid bland or optimistic assessments by other countries.

"Sudan has a history of agreeing to things and then trying to condition or change them or to backtrack and say, 'Well no, we didn't really agree to that,"' Rice said at a conference on Darfur organized by the new conservative-led French government. Read more >>>>>>>>>>>>

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