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“both of these resolutions have to do with the Sudan, a country where for the last really 23 years there has been real turmoil in terms of a civil war underway that is addressed in part under S. Res. 388, the Sudan Peace Agreement, and then, more recently, over the last 3 years, in a western part of Sudan, the Darfur region, where we have seen genocide underway, as we have spelled out on the floor over the last year and talked about. Both of these resolutions address a human tragedy that has played out over the last several years. The first, the Sudan Peace Agreement, is a reaffirmation of a peace agreement which has been made that we need to support. And it is probably the only way we can reverse what has been a tragedy that has killed about 2 million people and caused 5 million people to be displaced from their homes throughout Sudan over the last 23, 24 years. The Darfur crisis is one that we have described on this floor many times. And as we have followed it, since February a year and a half ago, things have gotten better and worse and better and worse. Right now they are not going very well. So I appreciate Senators Biden and Lugar putting forth that resolution. ____________________”