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| US sanctions bill harmful to peace efforts: Sudan |
| 2004-12-26 |
| KHARTOUM: Khartoum criticised a bill recently signed by US President George W Bush and imposing sanctions on Sudan as unfair and harming ongoing peace efforts, press reports said Saturday. The independent Al-Rai Al-Aam quoted Sudanese Charge d'Afaires in Washington Khidir Haroun as saying the Sudan Peace Act sends a "harmful message" to government negotiators currently engaged in talks with southern and Darfur rebels. On Thursday, Bush signed a 300-million-dollar bill promoting peace and providing aid for displaced people in Sudan, while imposing an asset freeze and requesting a travel ban on senior officials over the government's failure to stop atrocities in Darfur. Haroun slammed the bill as "unfair", saying it would only "prolong the current war and fuel more fires". The diplomat argued that the US executive had succumbed to Congress, which has aggressively pushed for sanctions against Khartoum and described exactions committed by the government's proxy militias in Darfur as "genocide". "The US Congress has a history of taking a hard line against the Sudan," Al-Rai Al-Aam quoted Sudanese Justice Minister Ali Osman Yassin as saying about the law. "The American law is undue, unjustified and untimely," the paper also quoted parliamentary peace committee head Abdel Rahman al-Fadni as saying. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 There IS no goddam "peace effort." Except the peace of the grave for non-muslims & non-arabs. Murderous wankers. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-12-26 11:38:34 AM |
| #1 US sanctions bill harmful to peace efforts: Sudan How about: "Ongoing Sudan inaction fatal to non-Muslims: US"?? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-26 3:28:37 AM |