The Sudanese government on Wednesday did not rule out an acceptance of a UN Security Council resolution on strengthening UN's role in Sudan's western restive region of Darfur.

The UN resolution adopted on Tuesday demands an international assessment team to be sent to Darfur to prepare for a UN takeover of the peacekeeping mission in the region from the African Union ( AU).

"The government does not want to enter a confrontation with the international society and the UN Security Council on the peacekeeping problem in Darfur," said Jamal Mohammed Ibrahim, spokesman of the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He reiterated Khartoum's position that any foreign forces should not be deployed on the Sudanese territories without an agreement of the government.

On the assessment team which the UN Security Council asked the Sudanese government to allow its entry within a week, the spokesman said that the government has the right to view the application of any UN team's visit.

"The application of the assessment team's visit ought to be carried out through direct procedures," said the spokesman, adding that "the diplomatic canals between the UN and the government are open and it was not necessary for the Security Council to issue a resolution on the visit."

Meanwhile, he stressed that it was important at the present stage to concentrate on supporting the AU role in Darfur and enhancing a peace agreement which the government signed with a main Darfur rebel group in Nigerian capital Abuja on May 5.

The spokesman also said that the Sudanese government believed that the UN could play a role in Darfur in the humanitarian field such as repatriating the refugees and internally displaced persons to their homelands as well as assisting the reconstruction and rehabilitation programs.

Source: Xinhua