The Sudanese government on Tuesday ordered a general mobilization alert to face down any foreign intervention in the Darfur crisis.

Agriculture Minister Majzub al-Khalifa Ahmed announced the order to reporters after an emergency cabinet meeting.

The ministers ordered the "political and strategic mobilization of all government institutions", Ahmed told the reporters, adding the meeting also decided to "strongly resist all (UN Security Council) resolutions calling for despatching international forces to Darfur."

The minister, who is Khartoum's pointman in the bloody conflict in Darfur, noted that "the government will from now on harden its attitude in rejection of any foreign intervention in Darfur and will notify the international community of this position."

"The government will appropriately deal with any soldier who sets foot on Sudanese territory," he warned, adding mobilization would also include public protest demonstrations against foreign intervention.

Ahmed, however, did not rule out the possibility of dialogue with opposition parties and said that the government will release all political detainees and engage in dialogue with them.

Also on Tuesday, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry summoned the representatives of the German and British embassies in Khartoum to express its protest against the two countries for calling for military intervention to settle the Darfur issue.

On Monday night, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail, who is in Turkey on a visit, told a press conference in Ankara that there was no need to deploy a peacekeeping force in Sudan especially in Darfur.

Security of the entire Sudan is the responsibility of the Sudanese security forces, he stressed, adding the Sudanese people will consider any foreign peace force as an occupation power as was the case in Afghanistan and in Iraq.

The Sudanese government has been under mounting pressure to end the conflict in Darfur, which has left about 10,000 people dead, while the United States and the European Union threatened to press for a UN resolution on imposing sanctions on Khartoum.