NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh urges President Obama and the U.S. State Department, especially the Office of the U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, whose envoys and representatives have visited Pittsburgh over the past five years on four separate occasions, as well as the members of Congress from this and other states, to exert all possible diplomatic leverage to bring about peace with justice in both Sudan and South Sudan and to facilitate humanitarian assistance where this is currently being impeded. City Council acknowledges and deplores the massacre in Bentiu in an environment where additional such violations, and a possible full-scale civil war, may ensue. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Will of Council shall be circulated to Senators Casey and Toomey, Congressman Doyle, and President Obama.