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Robert Zoellick Holds News Briefing
DEPUTY SECRETARY ZOELLICK HOLDS A NEWS BRIEFING, KHARTOUM, AS RELEASED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT
APRIL 14, 2005SPEAKER: ROBERT ZOELLICK, U.S. DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE[*] ZOELLICK: Well, thank you all for being here and I apologize for being late. I had an extensive set of meetings. As I think most of you are aware, this trip started a few days ago for me in Oslo, where I attended a conference that was focused on generating more support from the donor community for the North/South accord, the CPA. And as part of that conference I was pleased to announce a substantial U.S. contribution of about 1.7 billion dollars, pending final congressional action on about half of it. While there I also stressed the interconnection between the North/South accord and events in Darfur, where we face some enormous challenges on both the humanitarian and the security side. And recognizing that ultimately, to deal with the problems of Darfur, one best chance in terms of political reconciliation would be through the implementation of the North/South process; so seeing the interconnection between these two issues. Today I started out by having a very helpful briefing by the US staff here, including I want to emphasize - the AID mission, because the people that I had a chance to meet wi...See the full content of this document
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