Bush Offers to Meet With Sudan's Leader to Pave Way for U.N. Force in Darfur
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President Bush has proposed meeting with Sudan's president, Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan al-Bashir, as an incentive for Bashir to lift his adamant opposition to the introduction of U.N. peacekeeping forces in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, according to a Sudanese government spokesman and U.S. government...
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NASHVILLE, July 19 -- President Bush said Thursday that he had considered unilaterally sending U.S. troops to Darfur to stop the mass slaughter in that Sudanese region but decided against it in favor of a multinational response that he conceded has been "slow" and "tedious."
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 19 -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Tuesday dismissed pleas from President Bush, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and other Western leaders to allow a force of 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers into the violence-wracked Darfur region.
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Senior United Nations diplomats will  seek to persuade Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir&#039;s  government on Tuesday to accept a U.N. peacekeeping force in  the western Darfur region.
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President Bush called Tuesday on all nations to step up efforts to end âonce and for allâ the ethnic slaughter still continuing in Sudanâs western Darfur region.
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CAIRO - Sudanâs president, threatened with UN sanctions over the Darfur crisis, is due to meet Sunday in Libya with leaders of neighbouring powers to lay down the basis for direct talks with the rebels a few days later.
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The US presidential envoy to Sudan will meet senior NATO and EU officials in Brussels Friday, as Washington mulls possible military action to end violence in the strife-torn region of Darfur, senior US officials said.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan pressed Sudan&#039;s president Sunday to accept U.N. peacekeepers in the country&#039;s war-wracked Darfur region and said he expected the troops to be deployed there despite staunch government opposition.
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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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The U.S. State Department on   Wednesday described as "unsatisfactory" Sudan's official reply   to a personal message sent by President George W. Bush for   Khartoum to accept a U.N. force in Darfur.
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Sudan blunted U.S. pressure to accept  U.N. troops in Darfur, sidelining Washington's top diplomat on  Africa on Monday ahead of a critical U.N. Security Council  debate on taming Sudan's violent western region.
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President George W. Bush said on  Tuesday the United Nations' credibility is at stake over the  violence in Sudan's Darfur region and challenged world leaders  to act quickly to get a peacekeeping force there.
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President Bush pressed Darfur rebel  leader Minni Arcua Minnawi on Tuesday to help implement a deal  aimed at ending the violence in western Sudan, the White House  said.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met  Sudanese officials on Thursday for talks focusing on planned  peace negotiations over war-ravaged Darfur and arrangements for  a massive peacekeeping force to go there.
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Sudan has left a 'tiny' window open  for negotiation on accepting U.N. troops in its violent Darfur  region, the top U.N. envoy in Khartoum said on Wednesday.
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The United States and other nations are prepared to help move an expanded African peacekeeping force into position in Sudan's Darfur region to halt the bloodshed, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday.
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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.