U.S. Sudan Talks Senator John Kerry s Visit
September 82009
As chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry will lead a congressional delegation to Sudan’s Darfur region, and will hold talks with senior members of the Sudanese government. [John Kerry, U.S. Senator]: “It’s a pleasure for me to be in Sudan and I am looking forward to some very in-depth discussions. There are obviously some very important issues for us to begin to talk about. Now it’s my opportunity, representing the Congress of the United States Senate to be here to engage on humanitarian issues and obviously issues pertaining to the conflict that has so seriously pulled at the country over these last years. We are all very hopeful that we can make progress on these issues, I think everybody will benefit from that.” Washington has had tense relations with the Islamist government of Bashir, who came to power in Africa’s largest country in a 1989 coup. The United States imposed economic sanctions on Sudan in 1997 and labeled it a state sponsor of terrorism. Ties were strained further by the conflict in Darfur, which both Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush have called genocide, a description Sudan’s government rejects
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