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N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - The U.N. chief won Chad's backing for a Darfur peace conference during a visit Friday to this poverty-stricken central African nation that has become home to tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict in neighboring Sudan.
President Idriss Deby, speaking to reporters after his talks with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, added he had discussed hosting a preliminary meeting for Darfur rebels before the peace conference set to start Oct. 27 in Libya. The failure of Darfur's fractured rebel movements to act in concert has stymied previous efforts to end the four-year war in Sudan's Darfur.
"We have a long experience dealing with the Sudanese rebels, we know them personally," Chad's foreign affairs minister, Ahmat Allam-mi, told reporters.
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