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To: Tomas who wrote (2257)	4/6/2001 10:45:43 AM
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Sudan taxes for investment KHARTOUM April 6, Africa Analysis Newly appointed Sudan finance minister Abdel Rahim Hamdi has introduced a new tax system designed to attract foreign and local direct investment into the non-oil sectors of the economy. The system is firmly based on the premise that the private sector should be the main engine of economic activity. Most foreign direct investments (FDI) in Sudan are directed to the lucrative oil industry. It was Hamdi, who in 1994 masterminded the revival of the oil industry by enticing Chevron to sell its oil concessions to Arakis Petroleum, precursor of Talisman Energy. Now he wants the other sectors of the economy to move forward. The new tax reform cancels most of the taxes imposed previously on agriculture, especially cotton, Sudan's agricultural main export. It will include a fees reduction on foodstuffs and a reform in custom duties on agricultural inputs and machinery. ...

To: Tomas who wrote (2257)	4/8/2001 11:01:43 AM
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Libya: UN Criticizes Lockerbie Judgment! "There seemed to be considerable political influence on the judges and the verdict". UN Criticizes Lockerbie Judgment By OMAR SHAMA, Associated Press Writer CAIRO, Egypt (AP) April 7 - An official U.N. observer of the Lockerbie bombing trial said Saturday that the judgment of the Scottish court was inconsistent and appeared to have been made under political influence. Hans Koeschler, an expert on international law from Austria, criticized the court's decision to convict a former Libyan intelligence agent of murder and acquit his co-defendant ``The present judgment is logically inconsistent,'' Koeschler said at the opening of a two-day conference on the Lockerbie trial at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo. ``You cannot come out with a verdict of guilty for one and innocent for the other when they were both being tried with the same evidence,'' Koeschler said, emphasizing that the views were his own and not those of the United Nations (news - web sites). Prosecutors changed the indictment twice during the trial in an attempt to dissociate the two defendants, he noted. Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was sentenced to life imprisonment for planting the bomb that blew up a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people. Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, a Libyan Arab Airlines official, was acquitted of all charges in the trial that ended Jan. 31. Koeschler, a professor of philosophy at Innsbruck University, was one of five people appointed by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) to observe the trial, which was held at a former air base in the Netherlands to satisfy Libyan demands for a neutral venue. ``In my opinion, there seemed to be considerable political influence on the judges and the verdict,'' Koeschler told The Associated Press after his speech. ``My guess is that it came from the United States and the United Kingdom,'' he said. ``This was my impression.'' Koeschler said he had submitted his report on the trial to Annan, who forwarded it to the Scottish authorities. The conference, attended by Arab legal experts and government officials, is expected to address Libyan demands that sanctions be abolished. The sanctions, including an air embargo, were suspended after Libya handed over the two indicted men in 1999. The United States and Britain have called for Libya to acknowledge responsibility for the bombing and pay compensation before the measures are scrapped. dailynews.yahoo.com