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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Momentum is building in the effort to find a political solution to the violence in Sudan's Darfur region, but until hostilities on the ground cease, the quest to find a political settlement "will not succeed," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a new report.
Ban's warning comes on the heels of U.N. approval for a joint African Union-U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur and as a meeting gets under way this weekend in Arusha, Tanzania, to get Darfur's various splinter rebel factions to agree on an agenda for peace talks.
The AU's envoy to Darfur, Salim Ahmed Salim, told state-owned Tanzania Television the Arusha meeting was necessary because, "the rebels don't have a common strategy on what to negotiate with the government."
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