We have detected that the browser you are using is no longer supported. As a result, some content may not display correctly.
We suggest that you upgrade to the latest version of any of the following browsers:
close notification
Pres
ident George W. Bush will name former aid chief Andrew Natsios
as special envoy for Sudan as the US and its allies pressure the
government there to let an international force into the
violence-stricken Darfur region.
Bush plans to announce the appointment in a speech before the
United Nations General Assembly tomorrow, said Senator Norm
Coleman, a Minnesota Republican who is at the UN as part of a
congressional delegation.
Natsios until January was the director of the US Agency for
International Development. He is currently a professor at the
InterCultural Center in Washington.
Former Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, who resigned in
June, had been the main US official managing the Darfur issue. He
brokered a tenuous peace accord between the Sudanese government and
one rebel faction in Darfur.
Zoellick's special representative for Sudan, Roger Winter, left his
job Aug. 4. Implementation of the agreement brokered by Zoellick
has faltered. The international community has been trying to
persuade the Sudanese government to accept a UN-led peacekeeping
force taking over forces from the African Union.
The African contingent, hampered by a lack of mobility and
firepower, has failed to stem fighting between government forces
and rebels in Darfur that has killed tens of thousands of civilians
and forced about 2,5-million people from their homes.
The AU mandate expires at the end of the month.
Former Senator John Danforth served in President Bush's first term
as an envoy to Sudan charged with helping to bring an end to a
civil war there.
Map
