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March 26, 2005
Senator Nelson on Darfur
A couple of weeks ago my sister-in-law had a LTE in the local paper calling for action on the genocide in Sudan. She called for readers to contact Sens. Nelson and Hagel.
Either Senator Nelson got a raft of phone calls or he or his staff noticed the letter because the Senator wrote a LTE to the Journal-Star in response.
I previously co-sponsored Senate Bill 495, the Darfur Accountability Act, which reconfirms that genocide is occurring in Darfur and calls for several steps aimed at stopping it.
These steps include calling for a new U.N. Security Council resolution with sanctions, concerted diplomacy to achieve an effective Security Council resolution, an extension of the arms embargo to cover the government of Sudan and the freezing of assets and denial of visas to those responsible for genocide.
This bill further calls for accelerated assistance to the African Union mission in Darfur, a military nonfly zone and a presidential envoy for Sudan.
I share Katie's concern for the victims in Darfur. I co-sponsored this bill with the hope that renewed focus could effect change in Darfur.
[Sorry for the Lexis links but the Journal-Star's archival search, even when working, rarely returns what you're looking for and it doesn't appear to find LTE's at all.]
Posted by Half-Cocked at March 26, 2005 03:15 PM