At the moment Mr Gration's approach seems to be yielding results and should be supported.
Gration, a former fighter pilot, served as assistant deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for international affairs.
My special envoy, General Gration, has worked directly with the parties in his 20 visits to the region.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Attends Ministerial Meeting on Sudan
Earlier this year, retired Air Force General Scott Gration was said to be favoured for the position of Nasa administrator.
The United States is fully engaged in the region, with General Gration adopting a less confrontational tone with the Sudanese government, seeking consensus where possible.
After speaking with Gration, the campaign decided to cancel the trip.
Mr Gration, by contrast, favours a wary but active engagement with Sudan's government in the hope that it will be more co-operative and less brutal in Darfur and the south.
Harry Gration and the team will be at the stadium for Sunday's historic ClubCall announcement as Leeds Rhinos select their Super League play-off qualifying semi-final opponents live on air, the first time this has happened in the sport.
So I've appointed a special envoy, a Major General Scott Gration, a very close friend of mine, was one of the top fighter pilots in our military, in our Armed Forces, and somebody who's also an expert on development issues.
At the same time, a variety of other mediators, including the Qataris and a new American special envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, have been encouraging the disparate rebel groups to resolve their differences and form a more coherent negotiating body.
Mr Gration is using his political clout to force both sides to stick to their agreements under the CPA, thus offering hope that the peace will stick and that the south will be allowed to split off peacefully, if it chooses to.
Scott Gration, a policy adviser to the campaign, received a call from Pentagon officials earlier in the week expressing concerns about the trip -- specifically because Obama was heading there on his campaign plane and campaign staff members would be accompanying him on the visit.
Scott Gration, Barack Obama's energetic new special envoy to Sudan, believes that the best chance of peace for this divided country remains the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in 2005 between the Islamist government in Khartoum, in the north of the country, and the former rebels of south Sudan, who are quite separate from the Darfuris, and had been fighting their northern masters for most of the past half-century.
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