Khartoum infuriated by SPLM’s Arman call for keeping US economic
sanctions on Sudan
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March 29, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government has reacted
angrily to reports that the secretary-general of the opposition
SPLM-northern sector, Yasir Arman, called on the US Administration to
keep economic sanctions imposed on Sudan until the government there
demonstrates commitment to democratic transformation.
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Secretary-General of the SPLM northern sector Yasir Arman (FILE PHOTO)
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, the official spokesman of Sudan’s
foreign ministry Khalid Moussa said that Arman’s statements constitute
"a breach of national agendas and principles".
Moussa added that Arman’s call for sustaining hardships of the
Sudanese people was actuated by “party agendas violating the
regulations of national and political work.”
He warned that the SPLM northern sector must repudiate and correct
these statements since the sanctions are directed against the Sudanese
people.
It was reported that Arman suggested during a visit to Washington last
week, where he met with a host of senior US officials, that the
administration of President Obama should not reward Khartoum for
separating south Sudan but rather for giving freedom and democracy to
Sudanese people.
He went on to urge the administration not to lift economic sanctions
imposed on Sudan since 1997 over alleged support to terrorism and
later over the situation in the western region of Darfur until
Khartoum demonstrates commitment to democratic transformation.
The US Administration has recently initiated a process to remove
Sudan’s name from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism. However,
the administration said that repealing economic sanctions against
Khartoum was conditional on resolving the conflict in Sudan’s western
region of Darfur.
Hard-line elements within the government of north Sudan have
repeatedly called for banning the SPLM’s northern sector, which is due
to declare official independence from the ruling SPLM in south Sudan
when the region secedes in 9 July 2011.
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