House urges China to press Sudan over Darfur
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The U.S. House of Representatives  urged China on Tuesday to use its influence and economic  leverage to stop what President George W. Bush has called the  genocide in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The Sudanese government faced intense Western and African Union pressure to accept additional observers and soldiers in the Darfur region, as Foreign Secretary Jack Straw of Britain flew to Sudan yesterday to urge the country to do more to disarm marauding militias.
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Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, flies to Sudan today to press the Khartoum government to rein in militias waging a campaign of terrorism in the western province of Darfur.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw urged Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir to heed growing international calls for swift action on the crisis in the war-torn region of Darfur as a United Nations deadline for Khartoum to comply or face sanctions approaches.
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China urged activists linking its stance over Sudan to the Beijing Olympics to play fair and rebel groups in Darfur praised the decision by film director Steven Spielberg to quit as an artistic adviser to the Games.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew to Sudan on Monday to keep up international pressure on Khartoum to comply with U.N. demands to end the conflict in Darfur that has already killed up to 50,000 people.
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China has threatened to veto a new US draft resolution calling on the UN to consider oil sanctions against Sudan if violence in Darfur continues.
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Senior diplomats from the United States and China launched a broad dialogue Wednesday that could touch on a range of issues from Beijing&#39;s military build-up to its human rights record and help in ending the Darfur conflict.
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A U.S. congressman and the top American aid official who toured camps of displaced people in Sudan's troubled Darfur region on Saturday called for the international community to do more to end the 19-month conflict. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced since conflict erupted in February 2003.
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The United States and China held last-minute talks on Saturday before the U.N. Security Council was to vote on a resolution that would consider oil sanctions against Sudan if it did not stop atrocities in the Darfur region.
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The international community must  keep pressure on Sudan over a humanitarian crisis in the Darfur  region, but it is too early to say whether sanctions should be  imposed,  Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, Feb. 2 -- Chinese President Hu Jintao urged Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Friday to work harder to bring more Darfur rebels into the peace process, according to a Sudanese official.
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CAIRO -- China's special envoy on Darfur said yester day that his country will seriously consider whether to send troops on a peacekeeping mission in the war-torn Sudanese region and insisted Beijing is doing its best to help solve the conflict.
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The United States said it will push for a vote on its UN resolution on the bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region, and offered strong words in the face of a possible veto from China.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao told Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Friday Khartoum had to resolve the four-year-old conflict in Darfur, a source said after talks between the two leaders.
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BEIJING, Feb. 14 -- Chinese officials defended the country's human rights record regarding the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur on Thursday in the first official reaction to Steven Spielberg's abrupt resignation as an artistic adviser to the Beijing Olympic Games.
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The United States lashed out on Friday   at Sudan's government for its new military offensive in Darfur   and urged the Arab League and the United Nations to do more to   help end the crisis in western Sudan.