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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - With the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region spilling into neighboring Chad and the Central African Republic, former Secretary-General Kofi Annan recommended against deploying U.N. peacekeepers in the two countries until all parties agree to a cease-fire and start talks.
The United Nations is still pressing, however, for the Sudanese government to approve the deployment of a "hybrid" African Union-United Nations force in Darfur with 17,300 military personnel and 5,300 police.
Annan's successor, Ban Ki-moon, who took the reins of the United Nations on New Year's Day, is scheduled to meet the special envoy for Darfur, former Swedish foreign minister Jan Eliasson, on Wednesday.
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