Bush tightens sanctions on Sudan over Darfur
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President George W. Bush imposed new U.S. sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday and sought support for international penalties out of frustration at Sudan's refusal to end what he called a genocide in Darfur.
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US President George W. Bush demanded action to override Khartoum's opposition to a UN force in Darfur, as his Sudanese counterpart lambasted a &quot;Zionist&quot; plot to dismember his country and plunder its resources.
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President Bush told the U.N. General Assembly today  that the U.S. will tighten existing economic sanctions on Myanmar, citing a series of "the most egregious violations of human rights."
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President Bush's statement Tuesday announcing sanctions to pressure Sudan to stop the violence in Darfur, as transcribed by the White House:
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UNITED NATIONS/KHARTOUM, Sudan  - The United  States piled pressure on Sudan Wednesday to accept a more  powerful monitoring force in Darfur with a new U.N. draft  resolution threatening sanctions on its oil industry.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The United States softened its threat of oil sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday to try to get Security Council approval for a resolution pressuring Khartoum to rein in Arab militias accused of attacking civilians in western Darfur.
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UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Saturday threatening sanctions against Sudan unless it acts to rein in Arab militias accused of violence in Darfur that the United States has called genocide...
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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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President Bush has approved a plan for the Treasury Department to aggressively block U.S. commercial bank transactions connected to the government of Sudan, including those involving oil revenues, if Khartoum continues to balk at efforts to bring peace to Sudan's troubled Darfur region, government...
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President George W. Bush imposed new  U.S. sanctions on Sudan on Tuesday and sought support for an  international arms embargo out of frustration at Sudan&#39;s  refusal to end what he called a genocide in Darfur.
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The United States on Tuesday modified slightly a threat of sanctions on Sudan&#39;s oil industry in a revised text of its UN resolution on atrocities in the country&#39;s Darfur region.
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Washington&#39;s threat of sanctions against Sudan over the Darfur crisis is part of a US conspiracy aimed at destroying the government in Khartoum as it did in Iraq and Somalia, a senior Sudanese official said.
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The United States plans to announce tough new sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday before working out a resolution in the United Nations in an effort to end the bloodshed in Darfur.
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President George W. Bush has signed a new law which will give him the authority to freeze the assets of the Sudanese government as a response to the genocide going on the the Darfur region of that country.
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The US envoy to the UN on Thursday threatened Sudan with additional sanctions if it continued to drag its feet on allowing the deployment of 26,000 UN-African Union peacekeepers in Darfur.
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President Bush has decided to implement a plan to pressure Sudan's government into cooperating with international efforts to halt the violence in its troubled Darfur region, where his administration said almost three years ago that genocide was  taking place.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 8 ( President Bush on Friday pressed for international action to address a "dire" situation in Darfur region of Sudan where more than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced by fighting.