Britain says backs U.S. over sanctions on Sudan
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Britain &quot;fully supports&quot; U.S. efforts  to toughen U.N. Security Council sanctions against Sudan  because of the situation in Darfur, a British official  traveling with Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday.
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The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Saturday threatening oil sanctions against Sudan unless the government acts to rein in Arab militias accused of violence in the Darfur region that the United States has called genocide.
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Saturday condemned the United States for pursuing sanctions against his country over Darfur, the BBC quoted Sudan TV as reporting.
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Sudan has expressed its "total unconditional acceptance" of a hybrid international force for Darfur, but the world must keep up the pressure on Khartoum, Britain's U.N. envoy said on Tuesday.
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The United States modified its  call for U.N. sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday but still kept  up the threat of punitive measures if Khartoum did not stop  atrocities in its Darfur region.
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The Security Council passed a resolution on Sudan on Saturday holding out the threat of sanctions on the country&#39;s leaders and its oil industry if the government fails to curb ethnic violence.
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UNITED NATIONS/KHARTOUM, Sudan  - The United  States piled pressure on Sudan Wednesday to accept a more  powerful monitoring force in Darfur with a new U.N. draft  resolution threatening sanctions on its oil industry.
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The United States circulated a draft resolution Wednesday supporting a larger monitoring force for Sudan's Darfur region and threatening action against the country's oil exports if the government doesn't stop militias from attacking villagers.
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Sudan believes fresh U.S. economic sanctions will have minimal impact in Khartoum because the country has no direct trade ties with the United States, a senior Sudanese Finance Ministry official said on Wednesday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday that a U.S. arms inspector's report on Iraq shows that United Nations sanctions against Saddam Hussein's regime were "not working," insisting that it backed the U.S.-British decision to go to war.
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The United States said it will push for a vote on its UN resolution on the bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region, and offered strong words in the face of a possible veto from China.
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Britain backs bids by Brazil, Germany, India and Japan for permanent seats on the UN Security Council, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said.
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The United States and Britain must stop   making threats over the crisis in Sudan's vast Darfur region   because the government in Khartoum knows they can't back them   up with action, a leading British diplomat said on Friday.
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President George W. Bush on Tuesday ordered U.S. sanctions tightened against Sudan's government for its refusal to stop the violence in the Darfur region.
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The United States on Tuesday modified slightly a threat of sanctions on Sudan&#39;s oil industry in a revised text of its UN resolution on atrocities in the country&#39;s Darfur region.
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President George W. Bush imposed new U.S. sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday and sought support for international penalties out of frustration at Sudan's refusal to end what he called a genocide in Darfur.
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President Bush's statement Tuesday announcing sanctions to pressure Sudan to stop the violence in Darfur, as transcribed by the White House: