Date:

16 November 2004

Author(s):

George W. BushJohn Garang (Chairman of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement)Laura Hart, Jared Thomas, Tess Moore, Chris Gilmore (notetakers)

Classification Level:

Confidential

Description:

Memorandum of a telephone conversation between President Bush and President Garang regarding the unification of North and South Sudan. Bush urges Garang to sign the final ceasefire agreement; Garang says that it can be done quickly and that everything else that needed to be signed for the final ceasefire to go into effect has been signed already