The United States and France join China, Russia, Japan and a score of other nations to confront the crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
They are at a conference in Paris to support a new peace force in the war-torn Sudanese region. The conference comes after Sudan earlier this month agreed to let U.N. peacekeepers into the country.
The 20,000-strong multi-national force will bolster the 7,000 ill-equipped African Union soldiers.
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