Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his British counterpart David
Miliband on Sunday exchanged views on the situation in Sudan's
Darfur region during a telephone conversation.
Yang said China supports the UN Security Council resolution on
authorizing the deployment of a hybrid force in Darfur.
The Chinese foreign minister said the resolution should fully
represent the consensus of the United Nations, the African Union
(AU) and the Sudanese government and help deploy a mixed AU-UN
peacekeeping mission in Darfur as soon as possible.
Yang stressed that the international community should continue
to support its "double track" strategy -- a balanced combination of
political processes and the peacekeeping mission -- and to promote
a complete settlement to the Darfur conflict.
(Xinhua News Agency July 30, 2007)
