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07/31/2004:

"Sudan reluctantly accepts UN resolution on Darfur"

KHARTOUM : The Sudanese government reluctantly accepted a UN Security Council resolution on its troubled Darfur region, reversing an earlier position, a minister said.

"Although we don't like the resolution, we are already committed to the implementation of its measures on the basis of the agreement that was concluded with (UN) Secretary General Kofi Annan," the minister of state for foreign affairs, Neguib al-Kheir Abdul Wahab, told AFP.

Abul Wahab was referring to an agreement between the government and the United Nations earlier in July under which Sudan agreed to implement a series of measures regarding the war-torn region.

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