中國將向達爾富爾派遣數以百計工程人員(China to Send Hundreds of Engineers to Darfur)

中國證實將向蘇丹戰亂的達爾富爾地區派遣工程人員，作為聯合國計劃中的部署維和人員的一部份。

中國外交部發言人姜瑜星期二對記者表示，中國愿意為達爾富爾地區的和平與穩定與國際社會共同努力。她沒有說派出工程人員的數量或具體時間。美國國務院官員星期一說，這個數字將會是數以百計。

美國國務院稱中國的決定是一項積極發展。但是國務院發言人敦促北京運用對蘇丹的影響，使蘇丹同意在達爾富爾地區全面部署聯合國和非洲聯盟的維和部隊。

蘇丹一直在抵抗國際社會要蘇丹接受計劃中由2萬名警察、軍人以及其他人員組成的維和部隊的壓力。

China has confirmed it will send engineers to Sudan's troubled Darfur region as part of a planned U.N. deployment of peacekeepers.

A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, told reporters Tuesday that China is willing to work with the rest of the international community for peace and stability in Darfur. She did not say how many engineers would be sent or when they would be deployed. On Monday, a U.S. state department official said the number would be in the hundreds.

The State Department called China's decision a positive development. But a spokesman urged Beijing to use its influence with Sudan to make it accept the full deployment of a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in the region.

Sudan has resisted international pressure to accept the proposed force of 20-thousand police, troops, and personnel.