In order to snag a private meeting with President Barack Obama, you've got to be somebody. Hollywood actor George Clooney has been granted a meeting with the President next week to discuss the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Clooney, who currently servers as a United Nations messenger of peace, will sit down with Obama and ask him for his help in ending a long, bloody conflict that is thought to have killed millions of innocent refugees to date. Currently touring the neighboring country of Chad, Clooney says, "We want him to appoint a high-level, full-time diplomat to negotiate and work hard every day for a peace treaty."

Clooney says that he first visited the Darfur region in 2006, and notes that the situation there has not improved since that visit. He added, "I was here three years ago and in some ways there's not a whole lot of difference. It's sort of status quo. The problem is that the status quo is unacceptable."