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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - China, India and Pakistan are considering contributing troops to a peacekeeping force for Sudan's Darfur region , a U.N. diplomat said Saturday, after Sudan accepted the possibility of non-African soldiers in the mission.
The joint African Union-U.N. peacekeeping force will be predominantly African, said Dumisani Kumalo, South Africa's ambassador to the United Nations. But if African countries are unable to muster enough troops, "we will look to other countries to do that as we do in every peacekeeping force," he said.
The U.N. department of peacekeeping operations has said "China, Pakistan, India and others have started looking favorably" at contributing to the force, Kumalo told reporters after a meeting between U.N. Security Council ambassadors and African Union officials.
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