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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.S. warned Thursday that the Sudanese government could face further sanctions if it does not move quickly to approve a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur.
At Sudan's insistence, the U.N. Security Council agreed that the joint African Union-U.N. force would be predominantly African. But diplomats said Sudan has not yet approved units from Thailand, Nepal and Norway — even though 90 percent of the ground troops and 75 percent of the entire proposed force are from Africa.
"Now the ball is in the court of the Sudanese government," U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters. "It's very important that quickly they embrace this proposed package. Otherwise, I'm certain the United States will be looking at measures to `incentivize' cooperation, and that includes further sanctions."
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