French presidential adviser denies plan to visit Sudan

May 27, 2008 (PARIS) — The French Presidential Adviser for Africa, Bruno Joubert denied in an email contact with Sudan Tribune he had a plan to travel to Khartoum following JEM attack on the Sudanese capital.

Yesterday, Sudan Tribune reported that Sudanese government had refused to receive Joubert who used to handle the Chadian file with Khartoum.

Joubert said he had no project to visit Sudan particularly last week where he was travelling with the president Nicolas Sarkozy to Angola.

The French Ambassador in Khartoum last week denied last week Sudanese insinuated accusations of supporting the rebel attack on Khartoum. However President Omer al-Bashir reiterated his accusations saying that a European state were involved in the attack, during a speech in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday.

(ST)