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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9277
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/sudan/darfur

Barroso and Michel inform President Bashir of EU's extreme concern - Further €40 million in humanitarian aid

Brussels, 02/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - Linking word and deed, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and Development and Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Louis Michel travelled to Sudan at the weekend to tell the Sudanese President Omar el Bashir of the EU's extreme concern at the aggravation in the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, and to try, so far in vain, to persuade the Sudanese authorities to accept the deployment of UN troops on their soil to prevent an even greater tragedy...

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