{"id":1072,"date":"2007-01-08T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/richardson-says-progress-made-in-sudan\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T23:29:00","slug":"richardson-says-progress-made-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/richardson-says-progress-made-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson says progress made in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Gov. Bill Richardson had this to say about his meeting with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIt was a frank, open discussion about the most urgent issues facing the Sudanese government and the people of Darfur, as well as people across <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Sudan<\/st1:country-region>,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> said in a news release. \u201cIt was a good meeting, and I feel we made some progress. I\u2019m hopeful we can build on that progress when we meet again on Wednesday.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> will travel to the <st1:place st=\"on\">Darfur<\/st1:place> region on Tuesday to tour a displaced persons camp and meet with the African Union force commander, rebel commanders, United Nations representatives and local government officials, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city>\u2019s hope for his Wednesday meeting with al-Bashir is that it will \u201ccreate an atmosphere that will hopefully lead to a political solution that will bring peace and stability to <st1:place st=\"on\">Darfur<\/st1:place> and all Sudanese citizens,\u201d according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here is a photo of <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> with al-Bashir, courtesy of the governor\u2019s press office:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RaLUkRPrGmI\/AAAAAAAAAR8\/IiyYLPadBko\/s1600-h\/0108.BRichSudan.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RaLUkRPrGmI\/AAAAAAAAAR8\/IiyYLPadBko\/s400\/0108.BRichSudan.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5017806654413675106\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson had this to say about his meeting with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir: \u201cIt was a frank, open discussion about the most urgent issues facing the Sudanese government and the people of Darfur, as well as people across Sudan,\u201d Richardson said in a news release. \u201cIt was a good meeting, and I feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}