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TOPIC: Sudan FM expects Hillary Clinton to visit Sudan (Sudan Tribune 2/5/11)

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Date: Feb 6, 2011

Sudan FM expects Hillary Clinton to visit Sudan (Sudan Tribune 2/5/11)	Permalink

http://www.sudantribune.com/Sudan-FM-expects-Hillary-Clinton,37892 Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ali Karti has said that the U.S Administration had decidedly promised Sudan to lift its name from terrorism-sponsoring blacklist and waive economic sanctions after recognition of the referendum outcome on South Sudan independence. Karti has also revealed that he expects his counterpart US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to visit Sudan once the referendum results are announced and recognized by the government in Khartoum. Last month, Sudan successfully organized a referendum vote in which the citizens of South Sudan voted almost unanimously for secession from the north. The plebiscite was promised under the US-brokered Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which in 2005 ended more than two decades of north-south civil war. US officials including President Obama promised a set of incentives to Khartoum if it ensured peaceful referendum and respected it outcome. Sudan officially announced this month that it would accept the outcome of the vote, ending speculations that it might try to procrastinate on recognition in order to gain concessions from the south and the international community. There has been a flurry of meetings between US and Sudanese diplomats as Khartoum intensifies efforts to normalize relations with Washington. Karti’s visit to Washington was followed this Wednesday with a visit to Khartoum by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg who held talks with senior state officials and told reporters that the two sides had agreed on a road map to serve common interests. In an interview with Sudan Radio on Friday, Ali Karti pored over his recent visit to Washington, where he met Hillary Clinton and discussed lifting of economic sanctions and Sudan’s name from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism. Sudan’s top diplomat admitted that US economic sanctions were adversely affecting his country, saying that Sudan uses “suitcases and bags” to deliver payment of embassy staff in some countries. __________________ Nobody puts THIS baby in the corner!

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