US Secretary of State Rice demands Sudan apology (US Officials manhandled in Sudan - Rice trip)
Reuters  | July 21, 2005
 

10:01 21Jul2005 RTRS-US SECRETARY OF STATE DEMANDS APOLOGY FROM KHARTOUM AFTER US OFFICIALS MANHANDLED IN SUDAN 10:11 21Jul2005 RTRS-U.S. Secretary of State Rice demands Sudan apology

KHARTOUM, July 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice demanded an apology from Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir after U.S. officials and journalists were manhandled at a meeting on Thursday. "It makes me very angry to be sitting with their president and have this happen," Rice told reporters on her plane before leaving Khartoum for Darfur. Earlier, she told reporters she wanted an apology. Sudanese officials shoved U.S. journalists away from the Bashir meeting and slammed the wooden doors to his palace in their faces. Some U.S. officials were also blocked for several minutes before the Sudanese agreed to allow Rice and aides in. The media was later allowed to witness briefly the talks. ((Reporting by Saul Hudson, editing by Elizabeth Piper))