The European Union has said its fact-finding mission to Sudan found no evidence of genocide in the troubled region of Darfur.
However, Pieter Feith, an adviser to the EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, told a news briefing that there was widespread violence in the region.
He said villages were being burned on a fairly large scale during the violence.
The Sudanese government is facing the threat of international sanctions if it fails to satisfy demands from the United Nations to disarm militias blamed for the violence.
Arab foreign ministers who held emergency talks in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, called on the UN to give more time to the Sudanese government to disarm Janjaweed militias.
In a statement issued after the meeting, the Arab League said the UN's 30-day deadline to resolve the crisis in Darfur was inadequate.
The Sudanese Foreign Minister, Mustafa Osman Ismail, said Khartoum would work with its Arab partners to resolve the crisis.
