Bush, Sudanese Rebel Chief Meet on Darfur
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From Times Wire Reports
President Bush urged a key Sudanese rebel leader to help rein in violence in the troubled Darfur region.
Bush met for about 40 minutes in the Oval Office with Sudanese Liberation Movement leader Minni Minnawi, the result of Minnawi’s decision to accept a peace agreement designed to end what the United States calls genocide in western Sudan.
The president asked Minnawi to support the U.S.-backed plan to bring African Union peacekeepers in Darfur under the United Nations, said Frederick Jones, spokesman for the National Security Council.
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