Wednesday, May 31, 2006

President Commits to Rwanda

Reuters is reporting that President Bush today reiterated his commitment to Rwanda to sign a bill that is before Congress that would give $300 million to Rwanda for peacekeeping in Darfur http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-05-31T195231Z_01_N31244863_RTRUKOC_0_US-RWANDA-BUSH.xml.

Meeting today with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in the White House, the US president said "we will honor our commitments." Rwanda has about 2,000 troops in the African Union peacekeeping force serving in Sudan.

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