Normal relations between Sudan and Egypt

Sudan's state minister for foreign affairs, Mostafa Osman Ismail, yesterday described his country relations with Egypt as "everlasting, strategic and indispensable."

In remarks published by the independent Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper, he said that the Sudanese government was committed "to discussing all that can help restore the Egyptian - Sudanese relations to normal," Al Ahrar daily said today.