Bush Trying to Build Momentum for Peace in Darfur

Chicago Defender › August 06, 2009

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WASHINGTON - President Bush called on Monday for the United Nations to take over peacekeeping in the Darfur region of Sudan and promised to expedite food aid. He welcomed a proposed peace accord as "the beginnings of hope" for Darfur's poverty-stricken population.

Secretary of State [Condoleezza Rice] is interviewed at the offices of the Associated Press in New York Monday. President Bush said Rice would go to the United Nations on Tuesday to press for a new U.N. resolution increasing peacekeepers in the Darfur region of Sudan. AP/Richard Drew

Bush telephoned Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir seeking his support for a large U.N. peacekeeping force, but did not get a firm commitment, Cindy L. Courville, Bush's special adviser on Darfur, told reporters in a telephone interview.

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Bush Trying to Build Momentum for Peace in Darfur

WASHINGTON - President Bush called on Monday for the United Nations to take over peacekeeping in the Darfur regio...

See the full content of this document