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Sudan – United Kingdom relations are foreign relations between Sudan and United Kingdom. Sudan has an embassy in London whilst the United Kingdom has an embassy in Khartoum. Most of the recent relations between the two countries centre on the region of Darfur. == History == Between 1899 and the country's independence in 1956, Sudan (then known as "Anglo-Egyptian Sudan") was an Anglo-Egyptian condominium. Britain has had relations with Sudan's Islamist government since it took power in a military coup in 1989.〔(Jonathan Steele: Darfur wasn't genocide and Sudan is not a terrorist state | World news | The Guardian )〕 Following the outbreak of War in Darfur in 2003, in June 2004, British international development secretary, Hilary Benn, ruled out international military intervention for Darfur.〔(Britain prefers monitors to military action to avert disaster in Sudan | World news | The Guardian )〕 However, by the next month, it was reported that British Prime Minister Tony Blair was asking officials to draw up plans for possible military intervention in Sudan.〔(Blair draws up plans to send troops to Sudan | Politics | The Guardian )〕 In January 2006, Prime Minister Blair told the British Parliament that the international community was failing the people of Darfur in Sudan and that it was vital that the underfunded African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur be brought to full strength.〔(RTHK Online News - Tony Blair says world failing Sudan )〕 In September 2006, Prime Minister Blair said he would propose an incentive package for Sudan as part of a new initiative to end the crisis in Darfur and get United Nations peacekeeping troops on the ground.〔(Tony Blair to propose new Darfur initiative ) ''The Star Online'' 16 September 2006〕 In supporting the United Nations Security Council resolution in 2007 to authorize the deployment of up to 26,000 peacekeepers to try to stop the violence in Darfur, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in a speech before the General Assembly of the United Nations, urged strong support for peacekeeping in Darfur, calling the war "the greatest humanitarian disaster the world faces today". He also called for an end to aerial bombing of civilians, and for greater effort to support peace talks and reconstruction and said:〔(U.N. Security Council Approves Joint Force of Up to 26,000 Peacekeepers for Darfur ) by John Sullivan ''New York Times'' 5 June 2009〕 But we must be clear that if any party blocks progress and the killings continue, I and others will redouble our efforts to impose further sanctions. The message for Darfur is that it is a time for change. In 2007, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir accused Gordon Brown of deliberately undermining the Darfur peace talks and demanded a public apology after the prime minister's threat of new sanctions. Brown had said "Of course if parties do not come to the ceasefire there's a possibility we will impose further sanctions on the government." 〔(Sudan demands public apology from Brown over sanctions threat | World news | The Guardian )〕 Following the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant to the Sudanese President, Gordon Brown and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged the Sudanese Government to co-operate with the ICC.〔(BBC NEWS | Africa | Sudan head accused of war crimes )〕〔http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/latest-news/?view=PressS&id=14479209〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sudan–United Kingdom relations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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