Michael Eisenstat, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, says a stabilization force will have to look much different from the current U.N. force, which has been in southern Lebanon for the past 28 years.
Speaking through an interpreter, President Bashir argued that a U.N. force is a ploy to re-colonize Sudan.
"The alternative to a U.N. force is a European intervention, " the official said.
The U.N. force also reported being accused of aiding the Syrian army.
Sudan has indicated it might accept a U.N. force in Darfur to aid African Union troops if a peace treaty is signed.
It's hoped by many Western nations that by then a deal will have been brokered to allow in a more robust U.N. force.
Security Counsel for the very purpose of trying to get a resolution passed quickly, so that we can get that U.N. force in place.
U.N. diplomats say the expectation is that the U.N. force would not take over from African troops currently on the ground until July 1 at the earliest.
Kofi Annan is attending a meeting of European foreign ministers in Brussels, where a number of countries are expected to make firm commitments to the U.N. force.
But with this Darfur Peace Agreement, we really have an opportunity to move the process much more rapidly forward, so that we can get that U.N. force up and operating.
It could send a small U.N. stabilization force to Syria to as a monitor.
Jakarta is questioning the U.N. peacekeeping force's account of what happened, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Meanwhile, a U.N. peacekeeping force is no closer to being deployed in Darfur.
The resolution also lays the groundwork for a U.N. peacekeeping force to assemble.
Later it was revealed that Mladic had been able to press on unhindered by issuing ultimatums to the U.N. protection force.
And all this with no mention of a credible U.N. peacekeeping force.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the chief U.N. envoy for Afghanistan, has ruled out a U.N. peacekeeping force because it would take several months to put together.
The secretary-general of the United Nations says he's optimistic he'll find the 15, 000 troops he needs to beef up the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
The United States should insist that the 300, 000 Cambodian refugees in Thailand are not returned to Cambodia until after a U.N. peacekeeping force is in place.
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Security Council passed a resolution last August mandating a U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur, did you think it would be eight months and no peacekeepers would be in Darfur?
Even after the Security Council put Darfur on the agenda, it would take three more years of resolutions and debate to authorize a large U.N. peacekeeping force.
With the use of privatized security services, a robust military capability can still be maintained by the U.N. peacekeeping force without the attendant political backlash caused by casualties to U.S. forces.
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Lebanon balked at another French idea about strengthening an existing U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon called UNIFIL. France proposed UNIFIL be given the given the power and authority to contain and disarm Hezbollah.
If fully deployed, the hybrid force of U.N. and African Union police and military units would be the world's largest peacekeeping force, draw upon a maximum of 19, 555 military troops and 6, 432, civilian police.
The resolution states that the U.N. will have the force's headquarters in place by October.
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Poland's Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz insists his country wants a U.N. mandate for any stabilization force.
On the security situation, he pushed the government of Sudan to disarm the Janjaweed and to accept an international peacekeeping force, the hybrid force of U.N. and African Union forces.
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