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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - China's special envoy offered Tuesday to act as a go-between in new peace negotiations to end the four-year conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, where more than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million made homeless.
Liu Guijin, former head of the Foreign Ministry's Department of African Affairs, also defended China's efforts to help resolve the fighting and said it was "not justified" to accuse Beijing of supporting the bloodshed because it is exploring for oil in Sudan.
Energy-hungry China, which buys two-thirds of Sudan's oil output and sells weapons to the Khartoum regime, has been accused by some politicians and aid groups of not using its economic leverage to push Sudan's government more strongly for peace in Darfur.
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