Boris Yeltsin sent Victor Chernomyrdin to see me to discuss Russia's interest in ending the war and its apparent willingness to participate in the peacekeeping force afterward.
Minustah, the UN’s peacekeeping force in Haiti, is investigating a claim that septic tanks at one of its bases leaked into a tributary of the Artibonite.
For the past18 months, Mr Bashir's government, whose janjaweed proxiesare blamed for the worst of the atrocities in Darfur, has consistently resistedall diplomatic moves to let the small and ineffectual African Union peacekeeping force there be beefed up with better-equipped UN troops.
The Chinese peacekeeping forces have earned praise from the United Nations and the government and people of host nations for their courage, perseverance, professionalism and discipline.
