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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudan hailed a Security Council resolution to send 26,000 peacekeepers to Darfur as a diplomatic victory, promising Wednesday to uphold the deal since it respects Sudanese sovereignty.
President Omar al-Bashir had resisted for months a push to send U.N. peacekeepers to the western Darfur region, where over 200,000 people have died and 2,5 million been chased from their homes in four years of fighting.
But Sudan agreed in June to a compromise deal for the African Union to deploy jointly with the U.N. in a "hybrid force" to end the violence, which is what the U.N. resolution passed Tuesday provides for.
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