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 KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - The No. 2 State Department official expressed optimism Thursday that Sudan's leaders will try ending the ethnic violence in the country's Darfur region but said the United States wants more than promises.
Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick spoke after meeting at the presidential palace with Sudan's first vice president. He cited movement on the creation of a new unified government, reported efforts by African Union peacekeepers to lessen violence, and this year's peace accord ending the country's two-decade civil war.
"The responses that I've been given are good responses," Zoellick told reporters on the first day of his two-day visit to Sudan. "But this has been a problem that left tens of thousands of people dying so we have to solve the problem."
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