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LONDON (AP) - The leaders of Britain and France pledged Friday to step up pressure on their allies to help end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, saying it is crucial to quickly deploy more peacekeepers and maintain the threat of sanctions against combatants on both sides.
In a joint newspaper article published in London and Paris, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said there is a "gap between the efforts pursued by the international community and the dramatic situation that remains on the ground."
Brown and Sarkozy, who both took office in May, have made it a key foreign policy objective to end the Darfur conflict, which has killed more than 200,000 people in 4 1/2 years and uprooted 2.5 million.
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