President Bush threatened Sudan with greater economic and diplomatic sanctions unless President Bashir’s government fulfills its commitments under agreements aimed at ending the bloodshed in Darfur.

Sudan’s government must allow full deployment of a joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force, end military attacks on civilians in the region and stop arming militia forces, known as the Janjaweed, that are raiding villages, Mr. Bush said yesterday in remarks at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

“It is evil we’re now seeing in Sudan, and we’re not going to back down,” Mr. Bush said. “If President Bashir does not meet his obligations, the United States of America will act.”

The president said he would give Secretary-General Ban more time to pursue diplomacy while warning that the American government’s patience is running out. Past agreements by Mr. Bashir have been “routinely violated,” Mr. Bush said. “The status quo must not continue.”

Earlier this month, Sudan approved the deployment of 2,500 U.N. support troops to the Darfur region to intervene in the humanitarian crisis. The African Union has about 7,000 peacekeepers in Darfur who aren’t able to provide full protection to civilians in the region.

More than 200,000 people have died in Darfur in the past four years in a campaign of violence directed at rebels seeking a greater share of oil revenue and political power from the central government in Khartoum. The fighting has spread to include violent clashes among rival tribes in the region and has spilled over into neighboring Chad, where a dozen major refugee camps operate.

There is no doubt “that genocide is the only word for what is happening in Darfur and that we have a moral obligation to stop it,” Mr. Bush said.

Mr. Bush said he would block Sudanese government transactions in the U.S. and add 29 companies owned or controlled by Sudan’s government to a list banned from doing business with American companies and individuals. The U.S. also would cut off financial transactions involving individuals deemed responsible for the violence.

In addition to possible new steps by the American government, Mr. Bush said he has directed Secretary of State Rice to prepare a new UN Security Council resolution on Sudan.

In New York, British Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry told reporters that Britain, America, and France have been working on a draft resolution that would tighten existing sanctions on the government in Khartoum.