WASHINGTON: U.S. President George W. Bush and President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday discussed the need to deploy a UN force in Sudan s Darfur region, a White House official said. The president spoke to Egyptian President Mubarak earlier today about Sudan. They discussed the urgency of stopping the killing in Darfur, a White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. They expressed a strong commitment to effecting the transition to a UN force, the official told AFP. Last month, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution calling for the deployment of up to 20,000 UN peacekeepers to replace a smaller, ill-equipped African Union force in war-torn Darfur. But Sudan s government has opposed the deployment of the proposed UN mission. Bush and Mubarak spoke by telephone a day after the U.S. president demanded action to override Khartoum s opposition in a speech to the UN General Assembly. AFP
Bush and Mubarak back UN force in Darfur
