US official to visit Sudan tomorrow
Sudan-USA, Politics, 3/3/2000

An official at the US State Department has announced that US special envoy Harry Johnston will visit Khartoum on Saturday to discuss the possibility of returning back the American diplomats to the US embassy which has been closed since February 1996.

Johnston will make his first visit to Sudan, which is considered by Washington as a terrorism-sponsoring state and which has been involved in a long-running civil war in the south.

The US official added that Johnston "will discuss the possibility of having a rotating diplomatic presence at the embassy" in Khartoum, noting that this step does not mean reopening the whole of the diplomatic mission.

Meanwhile, the spokesman for the US State Department, James Rubin, said that, "Currently an evaluation is made to know whether conditions permits a rotating presence," so as to have a durable presence for the American staff in the diplomatic corps.

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