Sudan FM forced to cancel Kenya trip
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March 19, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti
was forced to cancel a trip to Kenya as part of his African tour,
Sudan Tribune has learned.
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Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti (Reuters)
Sources at the foreign ministry in Khartoum told Sudan Tribune that
Karti had failed to find a seat on a flight from Addis Ababa, where he
was on a visit, to Nairobi and as such returned back home.
Karti still intends to complete his tour which was supposed to take
him to seven countries, the sources said and added that this incident
is part of difficulties faced by the Sudanese diplomacy which does not
have its own planes for these kind of missions.
Last month, the Sudanese foreign minister blasted the finance ministry
saying that it has restricted his spending and made his job more
difficult.
He noted that there were two items in his ministry’s budgets that saw
cuts from last year by 26% and 40% respectively. Karti expressed
concern saying that he is "puzzled" over how his ministry will manage
for the remainder of the year given the financial situation.
Earlier this year, the Sudanese government approved an austerity
package that partially removed subsidies on sugar and petroleum
products with further cuts expected to follow later this year.
Among the steps taken that would have likely impacted the foreign
ministry is a 30% reduction in foreign travel for government officials
and 10% in the budget of diplomatic missions abroad.
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