U.S. Lifts Ban on Food Staffs to SudanSudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman has disclosed that Washington, in the past few days, lifted the ban imposed on railway spare parts and food stuffs to Sudan."Washington has increasing concerns in Khartoum and Khartoum has increasing concerns in Washington, which we should consider through a balanced dialogue", he added while speaking to reporters on Thursday. However, Osman called on Washington to be impartial so as to help boost the bilateral ties. Sudan's foreign policy has always been transparent, clear, realistic and unbiased, he stressed, terming the Sudanese ties with its neighboring African, and Arab, Asian and European countries as "very good", mutually beneficial, normalization-oriented and interference-void. Local dailies reported recently that the U.S. embassy in Khartoum, which closed down since February 1996 after Sudan failed to hand over convicts of the abortive assassination attempt in Addis Ababa of Ethiopia against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, resumed work as of last week. In September 1997, U.S. sent a diplomatic mission to Khartoum to take charge of its affairs in Sudan, which had been handled by the American embassy in Nairobi since l996. But the mission was stalled in the wake of the terrorist attacks on U.S embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in August 1998 which killed 12 American nationals among 224 others. In retaliation, the U.S. launched air raids on an alleged chemical factory near Khartoum said to be owned by Saudi millionaire Usama Bin Laden, the acclaimed sponsor of anti-American actions. Washington, moreover, accused Sudan of fomenting terrorism while it disagreed to Khartoum policy in the southern conflict between the Muslim majority and the Christian and heathen rebels. Earlier, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his U.S. counterpart Bill Clinton exchanged messages on bilateral detente. |
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