HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, Sept 10 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush on Friday discussed the situation in Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region with South African President Thabo Mbeki, said a White House spokesman.
The two leaders "discussed Darfur and they discussed the African Union efforts in the Darfur region" as well as Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's meeting with Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir, said Scott McClellan.
Bush and Mbeki also "agreed on the need to move forward on completion of a free trade agreement between the United States and the Southern African Customs
Union," McClellan said as Bush made a reelection campaign stop here.
"They also discussed the importance of addressing the situations in the Congo and Zimbabwe," said McClellan.
Bush also thanked Mbeki "for the recent steps South Africa has taken to pursue individuals and firms associated with the A.Q. Khan network," the nuclear proliferation group run by the father of Pakistan's nuclear program, he said.