SUDAN: US DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE ROBERT ZOELLICK ARRIVES IN SUDAN TOP DISCUSS DARFUR REFUGEES
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SUDAN: US DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE ROBERT ZOELLICK ARRIVES IN SUDAN TOP DISCUSS DARFUR REFUGEES
- Title: SUDAN: US DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE ROBERT ZOELLICK ARRIVES IN SUDAN TOP DISCUSS DARFUR REFUGEES
- Date: 3rd June 2005
- Summary: (BN12) EL-FASHER, SUDAN (JUNE 3, 2005)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV PLANE TAXIING 0.08 2. SLV WAITING OFFICIALS INCLUDING AFRICA UNION DEPUTY COMMANDER JEAN-BAPTISTE KAZURA 0.12 3. WIDE OF PLANE 0.16 4. VARIOUS OF U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE ROBERT ZOELLICK AND BEING WELCOMED BY AFRICAN UNION AND SUDANESE OFFICIALS 0.37 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: EL-ASHER, DARFUR, SUDAN
- Country: Sudan
- Reuters ID: LVAE57MQJ6FOR6US2HA4CJXPFEH5
- Story Text: US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick calls
for more police to protect Darfur refugees.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick
arrived on Friday (June 3) in Sudan's Darfur region, where
more than half the population is going hungry and African
Union troops are struggling to keep the peace.
Zoellick arrived in the dusty region with little
official fanfare and headed straight to the AU headquarters
to be briefed on the security situation by the chief of the
mission, who is in charge of around 2,300 troops and
hundreds of civilian police.
"This visit is ... to assess the humanitarian and
security situation (and) to show support for the African
Union mission," a senior State Department official said.
More than half of Darfur's population need food aid,
the U.N. World Food Programme said on Thursday, with rural
families joining refugees in the food queues.
Zoellick visited Sudan in March, met with senior
government officials and travelled to Darfur and the south,
where a peace deal signed in January is being implemented.
He was keen to emphasise on that visit the importance
of the North-South peace deal and its relation to finding a
lasting solution to the Darfur rebellion, which is in its
third year.
The United States calls the violence in Darfur
genocide, an assertion repeated by President George W. Bush
on Wednesday. A U.N.-appointed commission of inquiry
stopped short of finding genocide in Darfur but said
heinous crimes against humanity may have taken place.
The U.N. Security Council has instructed the
International Criminal Court to investigate alleged war
crimes in Darfur, the first such referral.
Zoellick will travel to Kutum town in North Darfur on
Friday, where some of the first attacks during the
rebellion took place, and will meet with tribal leaders and
aid agencies.
He will later return to Khartoum to meet with First
Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, in charge of the
Darfur file, and the top U.N. envoy in Sudan, Jan Pronk.
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