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September 26, 2006


HOUSE APPROVES WOLF MEASURE SUPPORTING SPECIAL ENVOY TO SUDAN


Washington, D.C. – Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) announced today that the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution supporting the appointment of a presidential special envoy for Sudan. Wolf introduced the bipartisan measure in the House earlier this month.

“The people of Sudan have suffered far too long,” Wolf said. “What is needed now is immediate action. The women and children are counting on us to try to end their nightmare. No human should ever have to live through, and endure, what these people have.”

Wolf has visited Sudan five times, the latest two years ago when he traveled to the Darfur region. “I saw with my own eyes the suffering people of Darfur,” he said. “I drove past dozens of pillaged villages and walked through what was left of four burned to the ground. I heard countless stories about rape, murder and plunder. I watched the barbarous Janjaweed militiamen – who are carrying out these attacks – sitting astride camels and horses just a short distance from where young and old sought what they had hoped would be a safe harbor in refugee camps.”

Wolf added that last week at the United Nations, the president renewed the U.S. commitment toward finding peace in Sudan by appointing Andrew Natsios as his special envoy for Sudan. “Andrew has a big task ahead of him but I am confident he goes into this position with the respect of the administration, the support of Congress and the determination to see peace in Sudan,” Wolf said.

The House resolution (H.Res. 992) supports the appointment of a presidential special envoy for Sudan with a mandate to include: deterring a further escalation of violence and humanitarian disaster; facilitating the development of an international peacekeeping mission to Darfur; ensuring the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Darfur Peace Agreement; working toward achieving accountability for the crimes committed in Darfur; coordination of reconstruction efforts in Southern Sudan; monitoring the return of refugees and displaced people to their homes; coordination of the transformation of the Sudan’s People’s Liberation Army into a professional armed force; working toward a peaceful, democratic, and stable Sudan, and securing peace in Northern Uganda.

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