Sudan welcomes the appointment of US special envoy, call for normalizing ties
April 2, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese government on Sunday welcomed the appointment of the new U.S. special envoy Princeton Lyman this week and called on him to fulfill previous promises by the administration to normalize ties.
The Sudanese foreign ministry said in a statement carried by state media that they look forward to see Lyman continue the “positive legacy” of his predecessor regarding honoring the previous U.S. pledges on removing Sudan from the list of states that sponsor terrorism. It described the latter as a “necessary prelude” for normalizing relations.
The statement urged Lyman to maintain impartiality, seek to maintain trust and confidence between U.S. and Sudan and not to re-litigate previous issues.
Washington announced this year that it has initiated the process of delisting Sudan to reward Khartoum for facilitating the South’s referendum and later recognizing its results. The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reportedly asked for an opinion from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Sudan’s links with terrorist groups.
The foreign ministry said that Lyman’s appointment comes at a time when Khartoum complied fully with the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and getting ready to resolve all remaining issues in partnership with the U.S. and the international community.
The special envoy today embarked on a trip to Ethiopia where he is scheduled to participate in discussions on security in Sudan before meeting senior Sudanese officials in Khartoum on North-South issues and on Darfur.
In a related issue the Sudanese presidential adviser Nafie Ali Nafie expressed skepticism that the West is currently “cooling things down” for tactical reasons until the South officially secedes next July before resuming pressure through sanctions and pushing for enforcement of arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir and other individuals.
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Marco A. Wek
Sudan welcomes the appointment of US special envoy, call for normalizing ties
Did your side change though?
Why would you be remove from the list when you have not change and will not change your course of terrorism? Are you not still one the dreamers planing to liberate the holy city and destroy Isreal? Would that not be a terrorism?
Do you think any US government would take such dreams off their list of terrorists? I doubt, they will do so and if they do, they will have you back soon no matter what, because terrorism is your birth right and you will not give it up.
mediing mut
Sudan welcomes the appointment of US special envoy, call for normalizing ties
The Peace in Southern Sudan is far from sight
Truly, people of Southern Sudan love each other to the extent and they never dream to murders their closed friends. Back then, if one person made a mistake, the elders come to table and solved it, before the court. If all attempt made and the case still unsolved, the court would have been the last option. Furthermore, those people of Southern Sudan never wish one an others to die, in order to gain the power or properties. If one person among them past away by chance, they would started mourn from east to western because they do not like death. During that time, people had a free movement, where ever, they like to go. Even though, one had no friend to see there, you could still .enjoy your journey. They also knew that guests were more respected and treated adequately. The food were share equally, no one desired to have more than the others, what was a good lived.
But now is totally different, in southern Sudan, everyone looks for his/her own and death are founded ever where started from house hood to the neighbours due to haters. Many people now are wondering for the cause of those hatreds and massacring innocent people, but no solution founded. The Citizens of Southern Sudan are crying for the peace, but no sympathy from their leaders. The peace is far to be invented in Southern Sudan, unless Salva Kiir Mayardit and Riek Machar are not in their respective positions. I know many people among Southern Sudan, would jump up and down to deny my words, but they will recall it one day.
In reality, peace will never be in the land of Southern Sudan unless Riek Machar and Salva Kiir Mayardit are not the leaders any more. The reason is that president and his deputy have to have peace with in them. If they have no peace among them, the entire Country would never be in peace. Frankly, Riek Machar and Salva Kiir have no unity that could have attract the civilian to imitate their leaders. The plans of these gentle men are to divide the tribes in to themselves and implant the hatreds among the Citizens of Southern Sudan.
Riek Machar goes to his tribes, Nuer and told them that government has been controlled by dinka and they took the important positions and loot all the money. When people asked Riek, how that happen, while he is second person in the power, he would said, if I response it no, people would have fought and there would be no peace. Then, I redeem all things to the peace, which is comprehensive peace agreement.
Looks, everybody in Southern love to be apart from Arab, how come one person could love peace more than others. Unless it was Arab, but Dinka who face everything in the bush, like anybody else would not want to destroy the peace just to have one day food. Riek also do not works as a vice president in order to dispute any wrong work the president did, just to show the people of Southern Sudan that Salva kiir do not know to do. He had just distanced himself to be innocent person guy. Well, if one could not do the jobs, why do you insist to be in the position and blocks every to replace you. But if Riek have a intention to be the president now, he would have been the president now, because Dr.John Garang asked him to emerge their armies and arrange the ranges accordingly. To just merge their armies, but Riek Machar refused it.
The same to Salve kiir Mayardit, He influences Dinka that, our people had killed by Nuer and which were headed by Riek Machar .Kiir stressed that I will never forgot it and I encourage Dinka children to do the same. I would give you all the important jobs and also send your children to school. He also told them just bear with me and supports me if needed. For instance last nine representative send to different nine Countries.
Inclusion the two leaders will never solved our problem unless they are not longer holding those positions to rules the Southern Sudan.
unityfirst1
Sudan welcomes the appointment of US special envoy, call for normalizing ties
Madiing Mut.
I truly agreed with your point brother!southerners were known as peaceful people who always love to share among themselves,before and even after the war had made the civilians deserted the land and disseminated our people all over the world,southerners were still holding on to their culture,they have never try to leave their culture.this current leadership will never bring us together,everyone is trying to work hard trying to win the population for the faultless persuasiveness for their own tribalism interest.The causitive to what we see now is signaling to this current administration that they have failed to governing the South period.