Khartoum stresses talks with Washington

The Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Othman Ismael has stressed that the meeting which was held in Doha between Sudanese delegates and members at the US Senate was fruitful and encouraging. He admitted that al-Khartoum asked Qatar to mediate with Washington in order to normalize Sudanese- American relations.

Ismael stressed in press statements issued on Sunday that it was agreed to continue the American- Sudanese dialogue so as to reach a common understanding for disputable matters. He added he had asked his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Hamad Bin Jasem Bin Jaber al-Thani, on the sideline of the Arab summit held in Amman in March the desire of al-Khartoum that Doha to play a role in improving its relations with the US and that the Qatari minister proposed convening of a meeting between Sudanese officials and members of the US Senate in Doha.

The Sudanese minister continued that al-Khartoum delegated to the meeting the director of the Strategic Studies Center Sayed al-Khatib and the director of the two Americas ( the US and Latin America) departments at the Sudanese foreign ministry Meir Ghani Muhammad Salah. He described the meeting as encouraging.