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 KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - A top Sudanese official on Friday signaled that Khartoum would accept U.N. troops as part of an African-led peacekeeping mission in Darfur, but perhaps not as many as the West has asked for under an agreement aimed at ending the continuing violence.
Khartoum backed off its previous fierce opposition to any U.N. troops in the region, but one Sudanese official said he expected African Union peacekeepers to supply most of the soldiers and another said the U.N. soldiers would only "assist" Union forces.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced Thursday night that the multilateral agreement — reached in a gathering of African, Arab, European and U.N. leaders in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa — could provide for a total of as many as 17,000 soldiers and 3,000 police officers.
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