US’s Bush extends Sudan sanctions

Nov 1, 2005 (WASHINGTON) — US President George W. Bush has extended for one year sanctions against Sudan, a country the United States considers a sponsor of terrorism, the White House announced in a statement Tuesday.

Because Sudan’s actions and policies “continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, the national emergency declared on November 3, 1997, and the measures adopted on that date to deal with that emergency must continue,” it said.

Had Bush not renewed the sanctions, they would have expired on November 3.

Measures against Sudan include an economic embargo.

(AFP/ST)