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French Foreign Minister visits Khartoum on Friday ?

‏By Hussein Hassan Ibrahim ‏

KHAROUM, Feb 19, 2004 (KUNA) — ‏ French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin’s ‏‏scheduled visit to the Sudanese capital on Friday holds great importance ‏‏within the framework of developing relations between the two countries.‏

‏Sudanese-French relations are very distinguished and have remained stable ‏‏throughout the years, illustrated through the stand taken by Paris towards ‏‏Khartoum during international campaigns against Sudan, leading to imposing ‏‏sanctions on the Sudanese government, after the assassination attempt against ‏‏the Egyptian President in 1995.‏

‏These Relations had witnessed great improvement since the meeting held last ‏‏year in Paris between the Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir and his fellow ‏‏counterpart Jacques Chirac, in addition to their meetings on the sidelines of ‏‏the African-French summit, hosted by Yaound.

‏Exchanged visits also included the French Minister of International ‏‏Cooperation’s to Sudan, and the Minister of Commerce’s visit to head to the ‏‏French delegation to Khartoum last month.‏

‏Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said Thursday that de ‏‏Villepin will hold several meetings during his visit, dealing with the ‏‏situation in Sudan, bilateral relations and African developments.

The Sudanese Foreign Minister added, his country seeks the ‏‏supervisor post in the Francophone organisation.‏

Kuwait News Agency interviewed officials who stated that de Villepin’s ‏‏visit comes within the framework of activating cooperation between the two ‏‏countries in various fields, especially in electrical and cars production in ‏‏addition to oil drilling.‏


The officials said that development of relations with France holds an ‏‏international importance to the country, in addition to the influence of such ‏‏relations on African neighbours.‏


The French Minister’s visit is aimed not only towards economic development ‏‏and bilateral relations, but is an actual boost towards peace in Sudan ‏‏especially as the visit comes within the current atmosphere of international ‏‏political monitoring to Sudan.‏


Sudanese relations with the international community takes up a balanced ‏‏scale, whereas its current efforts to develop relations with France is aimed ‏‏towards preventing international accusations, clearly shown by the French side ‏‏as it had taken a supporting side to Sudan and even encouraged a ‏‏Sudanese-European dialogue.

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