Sudan SPLM delegation arrives in official visit to USA

Aug 25, 2006 (WASHINGTON) — A SPLM delegation arrived to Washington in a ten-day visit to the United States. Reasons of the visit are unclear but the delegation will hold meetings with the Sudanese community in different cities.

According to a statement by the SPLM Chapter in the USA, a SPLM delegation headed by Secretary General Pagan Amum arrived Friday to Washington an official visit to the United States of America. The delegation will meet Sudanese communities in New York, Dallas, Denver, and Phoenix.

The delegation will stay in the US up to the end of the first week of September.

The members of the delegation are Pagan Amum, the Diplomatic Advisor of the president of president of the southern Sudan government and Secretary General of the SPLM, Ms. Awut Deng Acuil, Advisor to the President of GOSS for Gender and Human Rights and SPLM Secretary for External Affairs and Abdulbaghi Mukhtar, Secretary for Information and Culture, SPLM Northern Sector.

No details are given for the reasons of the visit but it comes after the second visit of the Sudanese First Vice President, president of Southern Sudan government to Washington last July.

In July visit, the US Administration pledged to provide sizeable development aid to South Sudan.

(ST)