U.S. should work for peace in Sudan – Jimmy Carter
Gulf News, April 24
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The new U.S. administration should strive to bring peace to Sudan rather than overthrow the Khartoum government, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said. It is unfortunate that U.S. policy is not devoted to bringing peace to Sudan where people are suffering from the disease and destruction of civil war," he said in a brief talk yesterday at the Sheikh Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-up.
He said he had contacted Vice-President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. "I requested them to bring peace in Sudan and not to overthrow the Khartoum government," he said.
Carter, who is in the UAE to receive the Zayed International Award for the Environment, runs the Atlanta-based Carter Centre that aims to resolve international conflicts, protect human rights and eliminate disease.
The Carter Centre operates disease control and peace programmes in Sudan. "This is the project of great interest of Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE Deputy Prime Minister," he added. He also hinted that the Carter Centre and Sheikh Zayed Centre may join in peacemaking efforts in Sudan. "The Carter Centre is concentrating on Sudan with two major goals, which are the restoration of peace and the control of dangerous diseases," he said.
Praising Egypt and Israel, Carter said that both countries had signed an agreement at Camp David during his presidency to end territorial disputes. Twenty-three years have passed and neither country has violated even a single clause of the agreement.
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