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 UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Australia's new prime minister on Saturday accused Sudan's government of obstructing deployment of a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force to help end the five-year conflict in Darfur.
At a news conference after meeting with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Kevin Rudd called Darfur "a continuing humanitarian tragedy" and said that action by the international community "is currently being frustrated still by the government of Sudan."
"And our government is of the view that these matters soon need to be brought back to the U.N. Security Council so that the government of Sudan can be held properly to account for its continued obstruction," he said.
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