The US Special Envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios, began on September 26, 2007 a ten-day visit to Sudan, where he hopes to help peace efforts both in Southern Sudan and the war-torn Western region of Darfur. He is scheduled to meet with Sudanese officials on Thursday to discuss the situation in Darfur and to travel to that region later this week. He is also expected to travel to Southern Sudan where a 2005 peace agreement is said to be in jeopardy. According to some US diplomats, Natsios will also help negotiate border demarcation between North and South and particularly the statute of the oil-producing central Abiye region.

Andrew Natsios was appointed by Georges Bush on September 19, 2006, while addressing the UN General Assembly, as his Special Envoy for Sudan. He is a Professor on the Practice of Diplomacy and Advisor of International Development at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

Source: VOA News