Emergency Security Council meeting over Sudan letter

The United States today demanded an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss a letter in which Sudan’s government said it would view any troop commitments to a future UN peacekeeping force in Darfur as a “hostile act” and a “prelude to an invasion,” a US official said.

In the unsigned letter, dated October 3, Sudan reiterated that it rejects a Security Council resolution passed in late August that would give the UN authority to replace an African Union peacekeeping mission that has been unable to stem the violence in Sudan’s western Darfur region.