Britain and France have stripped more harsh language from a U.N. Security Council draft resolution that would authorize a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur in an attempt to win passage for the proposal this week.The draft resolution, obtained by The Associated Press on Monday, is the third revision of the proposal by the co-sponsors this month.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, said Security Council members were working to finalize the document so it could be brought to a vote in the next couple of days.
"We are very close and our expectation is to finalize the resolution in the next 24 hours," he told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York.
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