US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, and Libyan Foreign Ministry, Abdelrahmane Chalgam, met on September 26, 2007 in New York over the situation in Darfur. At that occasion, the Libyan Foreign Ministry invited Mrs. Rice to attend the peace conference to be hold in Libya on October 27, 2007 between Sudanese government and Darfur rebel factions to try to reach a political agreement on the conflict that is ravaging the Western province of Sudan since 2003. According to a US official commenting on that meeting, it was of a good quality.