SENEGALESE PRESIDENT ABDOULAYE WADE SAID SUNDAY HIS COUNTRY WOULD PUT FORMER CHADIAN DICTATOR HISSENE HABRE ON TRIAL AS TALKS ON THE DEPLOYMENT OF UNITED NATIONS TROOPS TO SUDAN'S DARFUR REGION CONTINUED AT THE AU SUMMIT UNDERWAY IN THE GAMBIAN CAPITAL BANJUL, DPA REPORTED. SENEGAL HAD PREVIOUSLY REFUSED TO TRY HABRE, WHO HAS BEEN IN EXILE IN THE WEST AFRICAN COUNTRY FOR THE PAST FIFTEEN YEARS. UN SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN MET WITH SUDANESE PRESIDENT OMAR EL BASHIR ON THE SIDELINES OF THE MEETING EARLIER TODAY IN A BID TO CONVINCE KHARTOUM TO ALLOW THE DEPLOYMENT OF UN PEACEKEEPERS TO REPLACE THE AU FORCE. "I, OF COURSE, CONTINUE TO PRESS FOR THE EVENTUAL DEPLOYMENT OF THE UN FORCE IN DARFUR. ON THIS POINT WE AGREED THAT THE DIALOGUE HAD TO CONTINUE. IN THE MEANTIME, PRESIDENT BASHIR SAID HE WOULD PREPARE A PLAN FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, WHICH HE WOULD SUBMIT TO ME BY THE END OF THE MONTH," ANNAN TOLD REPORTERS. THE TWO MEN ALSO AGREED ON A NEED FOR A CONTINUED AU MISSION IN DARFUR UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR.
