Bush Toughens Sanctions Against Sudan Over Darfur
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Bloomberg - May 29 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush imposed economic sanctions against Sudan in a bid to curb the violence in Darfur and called on the United Nations to step up financial pressure on a leader who hasn&#39;t stopped what the U.S. describes as genocide in the African country.
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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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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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US President George W. Bush's special envoy for Darfur aims to travel to Europe and Sudan later this month in an effort to overcome obstacles to sending UN peacekeepers there, US officials said.
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The United States on Tuesday  modified slightly a threat of sanctions on Sudan's oil industry  in a revised text of its U.N. resolution on atrocities in the  country's Darfur region.
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The United States eased off on the threat of oil sanctions against Sudan to try to win Security Council approval for a resolution pressuring Khartoum to end atrocities in western Darfur.
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The United States plans to slap fresh sanctions on Sudan over the Darfur conflict on Tuesday and seek a tough new UN Security Council resolution punishing Khartoum, top US officials said.
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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.
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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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WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Monday the United Nations should send a peacekeeping force to the troubled Darfur region of Sudan as soon as possible without further delay.
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The United States is pushing for prompt UN Security Council approval of a resolution threatening sanctions against Sudan for failing to protect civilians in Darfur.
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The United States modified its call for U.N. sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday but still kept up the threat of punitive measures if Khartoum did not stop atrocities in its Darfur region.
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The UN 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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Britain "fully supports" U.S. efforts to toughen U.N. Security Council sanctions against Sudan because of the situation in Darfur, a British official traveling with Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday.
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The United States yesterday softened its threat of sanctions against Sudan&#39;s oil industry in a new UN draft resolution demanding a halt to the violence in Darfur.
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The US President George W. Bush has signed a bill that allows him to impose sanctions on Sudan to protest the violence in the western region of Darfur.
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US President George W Bush has signed into law legislation that enables him to impose sanctions on Sudan, in protest at the violence in Darfur.