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New York TimesBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 29, 2007
Filed at 1:51 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush will impose new economic sanctions against Sudan and call for a U.N. resolution to compel the country to stop stalling international efforts to halt the bloodshed in Darfur, senior administration officials said.
The president planned to announced the punitive actions Tuesday because he believes the situation in Darfur has worsened, said the two officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt the president's announcement.
The new action will stiffen enforcement of existing sanctions, bar more companies in Sudan from using the U.S. financial system, and clamp down on individuals suspected of violence in Darfur where more than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million people chased from their homes in four years of fighting.
The president also is directing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to draft a proposed U.N. resolution to strengthen international pressure on the hardline Sudanese government of President Omar al-Bashir, the officials said.
In announcing the sanctions Tuesday at the White House, Bush will says that Bashir's actions over the past few weeks ''follow a long pattern of promising cooperation while finding new methods of obstruction,'' according to a draft of the remarks.
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