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| U.S. approves first Sudanese ambassador in two decades |
| 2020-05-05 |
| [Sudan Tribune] The Sudanese Foreign Ministry on Monday said that the State Department approved the nomination of its first Ambassador to the United States after more than two decades. Embassy of Sudan, Washington, D.C. (Wikimedia photo)In December 2019, Secretary of State Mickael Pompeo that the U.S. and Sudan have decided to initiate the process to exchange ambassadors for the first time in 23 years. He made his announcement after a meeting with the Sudanese Prime Minister in his first official visit to Washington. In a statement released on Monday, Khartoum said Washington accepted the nomination of Nur Eldin Satti "as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Sudan to the United States of America". "The approval comes within the framework of the normalization of Sudanese-American diplomatic relations and its upgrading to ambassadorial level, after being at the chargé d’affaires level for more than a quarter of a century due to the policies of the former regime". The last U.S. Ambassador left his post on 30 November 1997. |
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