By contrast, news reports in Seoul on Thursday said South Korea would delay the deployment of some 3,600 troops to Iraq.
United Nations officials have said that the Sudanese government was simply looking for ways to block or delay the deployment of an expanded peacekeeping force.
The move reflects a hope in the Kremlin that the Obama administration may delay the deployment of missile defences in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Many developed countries are increasingly frustrated with what they consider stalling tactics by the Sudanese to delay the deployment of peacekeepers to Darfur, the troubled region of western Sudan.
Ukraine rejected the mission because it believed that the structure was too cumbersome and would delay the deployment of monitors, a senior Ukrainian diplomat said Friday, speaking on the condition of anonymity under normal diplomatic rules.
"The threat of these cuts has forced the Navy to delay the deployment of an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf – affecting our ability to respond to threats in an unstable part of the world," Obama said.
Some say that Mr Prabhakaran is manoeuvring to delay the deployment of new Sri Lankan fighter-bombers and warships long enough to acquire weapons that are effective against them.
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Within hours of the speech, the Pentagon announced that the pending budget cuts had forced it to delay the deployment of a second aircraft carrier to the crucial Persian Gulf, leaving only one near the Strait of Hormuz and the coastline of Iran after March.
But Sudan's government says that this would detract from the essentially African nature of the force and has refused, for instance, to accept any American helicopter pilots as part of a peacekeeping force.This stalling will, at the least, delay the deployment; at worse, it may undermine the force's capacity to operate effectively at all, as happened to the AU force.
