French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy conferred with Egyptian officials Sunday ahead of a trip to Khartoum aimed at finding a compromise with Sudan on the deployment of peacekeepers in Darfur.
The French diplomat held talks with Khartoum's Egyptian allies in a bid to explore new solutions after the Sudanese government made it clear it would reject a UN force in war-ravaged Darfur.
"We would like a UN command with an African general," Douste-Blazy said in Cairo before his meeting with President Hosni Mubarak.
Full story by AFP via ST 12 Nov 2006.
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