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| Hamdok says expecting Sudan’s delisting from terror list |
| 2019-09-04 |
| [Sudan Tribune] Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok on Tuesday announced they had reached substantial understandings with the U.S. administration on removing Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism." "There have been great understandings with the U.S. administration about removing Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and we have made significant progress," he told a joint news conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. "We are expecting a big breakthrough that will lead to removing Sudan from the terror list," he stressed before to add. "It is a convenient circumstance." On October 6, 2017, the Trump administration lifted economic sanctions and a trade embargo imposed on Sudan since 1997. But Washington still puts Sudan on the terror list since 1993. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the purpose of the designation moved from sanctions against harbouring al Qaeda leaders to force Khartoum to open humanitarian access to civilians in war-affected civilians, to ensure freedoms and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... Nonetheless, Washington says they intend to keep the sanctions on Sudan but will encourage other nations to support it. on 27 August 2019, a U.S. bigwig underscored that Sudan’s removal from the blacklist alone, will not be enough pointing to the resolutions the U.S. Congress passed in the past on Darfur stressing they need to be reviewed and amended because they impose restrictions on the U.S. administration. The State Department official was referring to the ’Darfur Peace and Accountability Act of 2006 and the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007. "I discussed with the German foreign minister the challenges the government is going to face in Sudan during the transitional period," Hamdok said. Related: Abdallah Hamdok: 2019-08-29 FFC extends to Hamdok nominees for Sudan’s transitional cabinet Abdallah Hamdok: 2019-08-29 Sudan Islamists vow to form broad opposition alliance to interim cabinet Abdallah Hamdok: 2019-08-26 Al-Bashir’s party voices its support to Sudan’s prime minister Related: Sudan: 2019-09-02 Belgian ISIS butcher dubbed 'the executioner of Raqqa' who beheaded more than 100 people in terror stronghold while claiming benefits in Britain is captured in Syria Sudan: 2019-08-29 FFC extends to Hamdok nominees for Sudan’s transitional cabinet Sudan: 2019-08-29 Sudan Islamists vow to form broad opposition alliance to interim cabinet |
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