Khartoum, Oct 6, SPA -- Sudan accepts in principle a mutualreturn to barracks of government and rebel forces inDarfur, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesdayafter talks with the Sudanese president. Speaking after talks with President Omar el-Bashir, Blairsaid he had presented five points on the Darfur crisis tothe Sudanese government, and the government had committeditself to them. The first point calls for a significant expansion ofAfrican Union forces in Darfur, where a few hundred AUsoldiers have been monitoring a shaky cease-fire among tworebel groups, government troops and allied militia. "We need several thousand people there in order tomonitor any cease-fire," Blair told reporters in theBritish Embassy in Khartoum, hours after he arrived inSudan for a three-day visit to Africa. The prime minister said his government had been followingthe situation in Darfur "with concern and alarm."--SPA1518 Local Time 1218 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/208532