Date:

20 July 2006

Author(s):

George W. BushCondoleezza Rice (Secretary of State)Steve Hadley (Assistant to the President for National Security AffairsJendayi Frazer (Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs)Cindy Courville (Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director forAfrican Affairs, NSC) (notetaker)Joe Wood (Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs)Cameron Hume (Charge d’Affaires, American Embassy Khartoum)Salva Kiir Mayardit (First Vice President of the Government of National Unity of Sudan and President of the Government of Southern Sudan)Pagan Amun Okiech (GOSS Adviser and Sudan People’s Liberation Movement Secretary General)Michael Makuei Leuth Makuei (GOSS Minister of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development)Awut Deng Acuil (Sudan People’s Liberation Movement Secretary for External Affairs and GOSS Advisor on Gender and Human Rights)John Luk Jok Ruai (GOSS Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports)Barnaba Marial Benjamin (Government of National Unity State Minister of International Cooperation)Ezekiel Gatkuoth (Sudan People’s Liberation Movement Representative to the United States)

Classification Level:

Confidential

Description:

Bush calls for solution in Darfur crisis and calls upon Kiir to defend Bush’s actions in public. Leaders discuss strategies to curbing Bashir’s actionsSouth Sudanese challenges, and political strategy. Bush asks Kiir for the status of his forces and otherdetails of conflict. Bush and Kiir discuss strategies for ending fighting with rebel factions, namely theLRA.

Citation:

National Security Council, Executive Office of the President.Memorandum of Conversation between the President and Vice President Salva Kiir.Unlisted, 20 July, 2006.