Khartoum welcomes US envoy if mission is 'constructive'
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Khartoum has dismissed charges that a US diplomat had been denied an entry visa and said the envoy would be welcome in Sudan as long as the mission was &quot;constructive,&quot; the foreign ministry said.
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US President George W. Bush's personal envoy returns to Sudan after warning Khartoum to meet a January 1 deadline to accept a plan to deploy UN peacekeepers to Darfur or face tougher action to end atrocities in the war-torn region.
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Sudan believes fresh U.S. economic sanctions on Sudan will have minimal impact in Khartoum because it has no direct trade ties with the United States, a senior Sudanese Finance Ministry official said on Wednesday.
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A US diplomat in Sudan is killed in a shooting in the capital, Khartoum, US embassy officials say.
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Bush names presidential special envoy to end conflict in Sudan, says bringing peace and democracy to Middle East a majorÃÂ focus of his presidency.
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Once home to Osama bin Laden, Sudan is an invaluable ally in the US-led war on terror but the cooperation may be allowing Khartoum to resist pressure to end the bloodshed in Darfur, experts say.
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Sudan appears to be balking at  granting a visa to the new U.S. special envoy for Sudan, Andrew  Natsios, and is restricting the movement of all U.S. officials  to Khartoum, the State Department said on Friday.
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Sudan's U.N. ambassador challenged the United States to send troops to the Darfur region if it really believes a genocide is taking place as the U.S. Congress and President Bush's administration have determined.
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U.S. special envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios arrived in Tripoli on Thursday for talks with Libyan leaders on the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, a U.S. embassy official said.
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SEOUL: Rejecting US charges of genocide in Darfur, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said yesterday he was optimistic about striking a peace deal within three months to end the violence in the troubled western province.
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Outgoing UN chief Kofi Annan decided to send a senior adviser to Khartoum to clarify Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir's stance on a proposed Darfur peace plan and appointed a new interim special envoy to Sudan.
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The Bush administration has begun quietly urging Arab countries to help overcome Sudan's resistance to deploying 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers and police to the troubled Darfur region, the new U.S. special envoy for Sudan said Wednesday
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The United States is expected to distribute on Tuesday a revised version of its U.N. resolution on Sudan, but retain a threat of sanctions if Khartoum does not stop atrocities in its Darfur region, diplomats said.
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The United States said on Friday it is preparing a new UN resolution on Darfur and that US Secretary of State Colin Powell might address next week whether the violence in western Sudan constitutes genocide.
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Sudan President Omar al-Beshir will send a representative to Washington in the near future to respond to President George W. Bush's call to allow a UN peacekeeping force into Darfur, a State Department spokesman said.
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China is willing to play a more constructive role in Darfur, an envoy said, offering to provide more aid to victims of the Sudan conflict critics say Beijing has ignored.
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A UN envoy welcomes a move to deploy  African troops to Sudan's Darfur region, but says more are needed.