Kerry seeks Sudan engagement after referendum

[karynnj]

Interesting article about a new Kerry bill that attempts to

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The proposal from Kerry, a close White House ally, affirms support for President Barack Obama's diplomatic outreach and efforts to forge a lasting peace, as well as address the fate of the violence-wracked Darfur region.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hvU1ejgyJkFMV9JMGQawpMnvsx_g?docId=CNG.87fc43de98513173dcce8b64af55cda1.1001

The co-sponsors are interesting - Durbin and Feingold (who is the Chair of the SFRC sub-committee on Africa) and Brownback (one of the first Senators to speak out on Dafur years ago) and Wicker (who is on the SFRC, but who I have no image of at all). It seems interesting to me that the SFRC seems to have taken the lead on this - though Kerry, in his visit there with Teresa, was able to get agreements on continuing the tri-party talks that I think led to the referendum and getting the amount of foreign aid restored to where it was before some aid workers were thrown out.

The bill is designed to support the results of the referendum, through which the south (Dafur) might opt to become independent, and other aspects of the 2005 peace agreement that "ended" the civil war there. They explicitly mention the international charges against the Sudanese leader and support trying him for genocide.

The article is a good one to read - I quoted very little as it was just about 30 lines long - and I really don't know what the rules are for quoting - I'm beginning to think that maybe the 4 paragraph rule, regardless how long the piece was is as much "folk lore" as college students thinking there were real rules as to how late a professor could be.