Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 2 May 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent representations he has made to members of the African Union to increase their troop levels in Sudan.
There have been no recent representations made by my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary or Foreign and Commonwealth Office Ministers to members of the African Union (AU) to increase their troop levels in Sudan. However, we support the AU's decision in principle to transfer responsibility for the international monitoring mission in Darfur to the UN. The UN force will need to be larger and better equipped than the present AU force, currently totalling some 7,000 troops. Meanwhile we continue to offer the AU support to enhance the effectiveness of its mission.
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