Yesterday the U.N. Security Council secrete voting passed a resolution to send 10,000 peacekeepers to Sudan to reinforce a peace agreement in the South of the country and to help in solving the conflict in western Darfur region.

The U.S. resolution was supported by all 15 Council members.

"While I welcome today’s resolution," Secretary General Kofi Annan said, "I also look forward to the Council’s decisions on those issues."

The council hopes the peacekeeping move will help to end to the violence in Darfur, where the number of the casualties from the conflict between government-backed militias and rebels is now estimated at 180,000.

"We remain very concerned and disturbed by the situation in Darfur," Deputy U.S. Ambassador Stuart Holliday said. "And we will continue working with our council colleagues to address that important question in the days ahead."

"It is not possible not to combat impunity, we need to put an end to impunity and the Security Council has to refer the situation in Darfur to the ICC," France’s U.N. Ambassador Jean-Marc de la Sabliere said .