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To: Edward M. Zettlemoyer who wrote (511)	10/26/1999 9:06:00 AM
From: Tomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1713

Firm's deals in Sudan a concern to Ottawa - Envoy to study Talisman operations in Africa The Globe and Mail, Tuesday, October 26 JEFF SALLOT Parliamentary Bureau Ottawa -- Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy will appoint a special envoy to investigate allegations that a Canadian oil company is helping sustain a repressive military regime in Sudan, government sources say. The envoy, who could be named as early as today, is to travel to that strife-torn East African country on a fact-finding mission to look at the Sudanese operations of Talisman Energy Inc. of Calgary. The envoy also will consider mediating a peace settlement in the civil war in which hundreds of thousands have perished. The federal government has "serious concerns" about Talisman's operations, an official said. Mr. Axworthy plans to meet with executives next week to "lay out our expectations of Talisman's conduct in Sudan," the official added. Government sources said Mr. Axworthy plans to unveil a code of ethics for Talisman and other Canadian companies doing business in Sudan. Talisman spokesman David Mann said the company is prepared to sign a voluntary code. Canadian companies "should not be involved in any kind of support for human-rights abuses or humanitarian infractions" overseas, Mr. Axworthy told reporters yesterday. In a recent speech at the United Nations, Mr. Axworthy denounced the slave trade that still goes on in parts of Sudan. The U.S. has been trying to get Canada to enact sanctions against the Sudanese regime, as it has done. Two years ago, Washington made it a criminal offence for U.S. companies or individuals to do business with the regime. The U.S. considers Sudan a state sponsor of international terrorism. In Kenya last week, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said she would raise the issue of Talisman's investment in Sudan with Canadian officials. She said some countries have the mistaken view that foreign investment in dictatorships will somehow help ordinary people but that in fact revenues wind up in the pockets of the rulers. Canadian officials deny that the move is in response to Ms. Albright's implied criticism of Ottawa's policy. Canada imposed its own limited sanctions in 1992, cutting off federal assistance to would-be investors and exporters.

To: Edward M. Zettlemoyer who wrote (511)	10/27/1999 2:48:00 AM
From: Tomas	Respond to of 1713

SUDAN: Canada to send mission - Financial Times, October 27 By Graham Bowley in Toronto Canada yesterday said it would consider imposing "economic and trade restrictions" if it found that private oil extraction in Sudan involving a Canadian company was worsening the country's violent civil war. These could include further measures against the Sudanese government and possible measures against Canadian companies, the foreign ministry said. Lloyd Axworthy, foreign affairs minister, said Canada would dispatch a mission to Sudan to look into claims of human rights abuses, including slavery and forced relocations of villagers from oil fields. He expressed grave concern about allegations that the involvement by Talisman Energy, a Calgary-based company, in an oil project in southern Sudan with the Sudanese government could be worsening the civil war. He said he would meet Jim Buckee, president of Talisman Energy, next week. He had invited the Sudanese foreign minister and the leader of the Sudanese rebel movement to talks in Ottawa, he said. "Canadians want assurances that the operations of Canadian enterprises are not worsening the conflict or the human rights situation for the Sudanese people," Mr Axworthy said. He said Canada would consider "economic and trade restrictions" if it became clear that oil extraction was worsening the Sudan war. Madeleine Albright, US secretary of state, has criticised Talisman, the only Canadian company involved in oil extraction in Sudan, for its stake in the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Group. The US government, US church groups and other critics fear revenues from the oil consortium could be fuelling the Sudanese government's campaign against rebels in the mainly Christian south of the country.