The Bush administration's special envoy to Khartoum may extend her visit to Sudan to meet with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, the State Department said Monday. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer has not yet met with President Bashir. She met with other senior officials, including the foreign minister, and she is still hopeful that she will meet with President Bashir, said spokesman Sean McCormack. She plans to go to Stockholm for an international meeting Tuesday on Somalia, but she also has a mission in Sudan that she wants to accomplish, McCormack told reporters. Frazer has a letter addressed to President George W. Bush in which Bashir reiterates his government's firm opposition to the deployment of U.N. troops in Darfur. The message from Bush that Frazer carried on her two-day visit was delivered to a Bashir advisor on Sunday. On Sunday, Frazer met foreign Minister Lam Akol as well as Bashir's two top advisors. The United States and Britain sponsored a draft resolution in the U.N. Security Council that calls for U.N. peacekeepers to take over from a weak African Union contingent.
