Five African leaders to attend National Dialogue Final Session
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October 02, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan on Sunday said that five African
leaders and chiefs of regional organizations will attend the National
Dialogue Conference on Monday 10 October .
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Sudan’s President Omer al-Bashir and his Chadian counterpart Idriss
Deby (L) listen to the national anthem during opening session of Sudan
National Dialogue conference in Khartoum October 10, 2015. (Photo
SUNA)
Sudan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ibrahim Ghandour, told reporters
that Chadian President Idriss Déby, Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould
Abdel Aziz, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Ethiopian Prime
Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and the Ugandan President Yoweri
Museveni would attend the National Dialogue Conference.
According to the minister, the meeting will be attended also by the
Islamic Cooperation Organization and Arab League Secretary Generals,
African Union Chairperson and delegations from Russia and China.
He said that United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon confirmed UN
participation without specifying the level of participation.
In January 2014, al-Bashir launched the national dialogue initiative
in which he urged opposition parties and rebels alike to join the
dialogue table to discuss all the pressing issues.
But the initiative faced serious setbacks after the government’s
refusal to create suitable atmosphere before the process, leading
several opposition forces to pull out.
The foreign minister further who returned to Khartoum after
participating in the Non-Aligned Movement meeting in Venezuela and the
UN General Assembly meetings in New York briefed President Omer
al-Bashir about his trip and stressed on the progress in the dialogue
with Washington on bilateral relations.
“On Sunday I have briefed President Al-Bashir on Sudan’s participation
in the UN’s 71st general assembly meeting,” said Ghandour pointing
that he met the Chadian President Idriss Déby and discussed with him
the regional issues.
He pointed that he has met 23 foreign ministers during the UN General
Assembly meeting in New York, and discussed with them bilateral
relations, regional and international relations.
Further Ghandour said that he discussed the Sudanese –U.S relations.
on the sidelines of the UN meetings,
The minister went to say that Washington reiterated that sanctions on
Sudan do not include private remittance and humanitarian aid.
“The is a very important step for banking transactions as
international banks fear dealing with Sudan since long time,” he said.
Last week, U.S. officials said that sanctions on Sudan do not include
private remittance and humanitarian aid to the eastern African country
and encouraged transactions with Khartoum within the framework of many
authorizations and licenses.
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