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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Sudan has still not agreed to non-African troops or unrestricted night flights for the new 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur that is expected to take over on Jan. 1, a senior U.N. official said Thursday.
But Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Edmond Mulet said Sudanese leaders did take some "positive steps" on deployment of the joint U.N.-African Union force during discussions over the weekend in Lisbon, Portugal, on the margins of a European Union-African summit.
In June, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir agreed to the deployment of the hybrid force without preconditions to replace the beleaguered and underfunded 7,000-strong AU force now on the ground in Darfur.
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