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‘We welcome constructive US engagement with Sudan’
Dr. Ghazi Salah Eddin Al Atabani is a long-time advisor of Sudan’s President Omar Hassan Al Bashir, and the point man on building better relations with the United States. He provided the following answers to questions.
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Sudan, on July 30 told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that in order for Washington to achieve its policy objectives in Sudan, it would have to end its designation of Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism, and end sanctions. What brought about this change?

