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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called the coming months crucial in the quest for peace in Darfur, following political momentum and approval of a joint African Union-U.N. peacekeeping force to stem the violence.
But in a report to the U.N. Security Council, Ban warned that "as long as hostilities continue in Darfur, efforts to reach a political settlement and achieve durable peace will not succeed."
The release of the report comes as a meeting gets under way this weekend in Arusha, Tanzania, organized by the U.N. and AU to get Darfur's various splinter rebel factions to agree on an agenda for peace talks.
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