中国将向达尔富尔派遣数以百计工程人员(China to Send Hundreds of Engineers to Darfur)

中国证实将向苏丹战乱的达尔富尔地区派遣工程人员，作为联合国计划中的部署维和人员的一部份。

中国外交部发言人姜瑜星期二对记者表示，中国愿意为达尔富尔地区的和平与稳定与国际社会共同努力。她没有说派出工程人员的数量或具体时间。美国国务院官员星期一说，这个数字将会是数以百计。

美国国务院称中国的决定是一项积极发展。但是国务院发言人敦促北京运用对苏丹的影响，使苏丹同意在达尔富尔地区全面部署联合国和非洲联盟的维和部队。

苏丹一直在抵抗国际社会要苏丹接受计划中由2万名警察、军人以及其他人员组成的维和部队的压力。

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.