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To: Tommaso who wrote (1203)	4/13/2001 11:33:35 PM
From: LARRY LARSON	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1713

U.S. says Sudan must end terrorist sanctuary before U.N. sanctions are lifted By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS, April 13, 2001 (AP) -- Sudan must demonstrate that it is no longer providing sanctuary to terrorist groups that are killing Americans before the United States will recommend lifting U.N. sanctions against the African nation, a U.S. State Department official said Friday. The United States has persuaded Sudan, which is on the U.S. list of nations sponsoring terrorism, to delay its call for Security Council action to lift limited U.N. sanctions until August, U.S. and Sudanese officials said. The sanctions, imposed in 1996 to force Sudan to hand over the gunmen who tried to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak while he was visiting Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on June 26, 1995, were never actively enforced, but they nevertheless remain on the books. The suspects were believed to have fled to Sudan. Sudan has been trying to convince the United States that it no longer supports terrorism. It says it has repaired its relationship with both Ethiopia and Egypt, and was helping both countries investigate the assassination attempt. The Non-Aligned Movement of developing countries introduced a draft resolution in the Security Council last June to lift the sanctions, which required U.N. members to reduce Sudan's diplomatic presence in their countries and to restrict the movement of its officials. Subsequent sanctions banned Sudanese planes from U.N. member states. Since then, U.S. and Sudanese officials have engaged in an on-and-off dialogue on counterterrorism. "The dialogue is making progress," the State Department official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "It is being conducted in a positive, workmanlike atmosphere." "If Sudan is willing to satisfy the U.N. requirements, especially demonstrating that it no longer provides sanctuary to terrorist groups, then we would be in a position to recommend that the United Nations lift U.N. sanctions," the official said. The Security Council was supposed to take up the resolution to lift sanctions in November, but the United States successfully persuaded Sudan to wait until a new U.S. administration was in place. The two sides settled on April 17 as the new date, but Sudan's deputy U.N. ambassador, Mubarak Hussein Rahmtalla, said Thursday that Washington again requested a delay until August "and my government agreed." "This was within the context of the ongoing contacts between Washington and Khartoum," he said. Council members from the Non-Aligned Movement informed the council this week that discussion on the draft resolution to lift sanctions had been postponed until Aug. 6. "We sincerely hope that by that time we can recommend to Secretary of State Colin Powell and President (George W.) Bush that they agree to lift U.N. sanctions," the State Department official said. He cautioned, however, that lifting U.N. sanctions against Sudan would not mean the country would be removed from the U.S. list of states that sponsor terrorism. "There are additional steps that we would need ... for that to happen," the U.S. official said, without elaborating. Sudan's efforts to repair its relationship with Washington suffered a setback last year when it defied a U.S. request to drop its bid for a permanent Security Council seat - a contest it eventually lost to Mauritius. Richard Holbrooke, then U.S. ambassador, said at the time of the Mauritius victory that Sudan's decision to "fight tenaciously" for the seat would certainly affect its bid to have sanctions lifted. Last month, Sudan's Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail was quoted by the London-based Arabic daily Azzaman as saying the United States should lift sanctions against Sudan and drop the country from the list of nations sponsoring terrorism before it can play a role in ending the country's 18-year civil war. Powell said in early March that ending the war in Sudan "will be a priority" for U.S. foreign policy.