UN FAILING AGAIN

China, Russia delaying Sudan peacekeepers, United Nations says

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UNITED NATIONS: Russia and China have delayed promised helicopters and medical units to a UN peacekeeping force in Sudan, thereby causing other countries to postpone sending troops, a UN official said.

The United Nations expects 10,000 troops in southern Sudan to monitor a peace agreement signed a year ago that ended nearly three decades of civil war between rebels and the Khartoum government. But only about 4,000 have arrived.

Jan Pronk, the special UN envoy to Sudan, told a news conference yesterday that Russian transport helicopters and a Chinese medical unit were considered vital before certain nations would send troops.

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Promised money to help development in the south and resettle refugees also has not been delivered, including from the UN budget itself, Pronk said.