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To: Tomas who wrote (1727)6/23/2000 8:45:00 PM
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UN Security Council mulls scrapping Sudan sanctions

UNITED NATIONS, June 23 (AFP) - Members of the UN Security
Council began examining a draft resolution on Friday to remove
sanctions imposed on Sudan in 1996 after an attempt on the life of
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Diplomats said experts were studying a draft submitted by Mali,
one of three African countries with non-permanent seats on the
council.

The diplomats said a vote might be taken on the draft next
month, and said only the United States appeared to have qualms about
removing the sanctions.

These were imposed to force Sudan to extradite three people
suspected of trying to kill Mubarak as he arrived in the Ethiopian
capital, Addis Ababa, for a summit of the Organisation of African
Unity on June 26, 1995.

The sanctions included a ban on flights by Sudan Airways and
restrictions on the movement of Sudanese diplomats abroad.

The draft resolution welcomed the fact that Sudan had signed
"the relevant international conventions for the elimination of
terrorism" and taken similar measures at the domestic and regional
level.

It noted that the chairmen of the African, Arab and Non-Aligned
Nations groups at the United Nations had written to the president of
the Security Council, French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte, to
support an end to sanctions.

Mali will take over the council presidency for the month of
September.

In a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on June 1, the
Sudanese foreign minister, Mustafa Osman Ismail, said inquiries by
authorities in his country "show that no trace has been found of the
three suspects in the Sudan."

He said the government of Sudan had held "intensive
consultations" with Egypt and with Ethiopia which "resulted in
complete understanding" with them on all security questions,
including that of the suspects.
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