Sudanese - Ugandan committee holds meetings in Nairobi next month

The Sudanese and Ugandan governments have set January 12, 2000 as a date to set the agreement signed by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni into actual implementation during a meeting of a joint committee in Nairobi and that the measure is to be preceded by the exchange of diplomatic missions under the level of ambassadors between the two countries.

This was announced following a meeting held in Nairobi between the Sudanese side led by the minister of state for foreign affairs Ali Numeiri and the Ugandan minister of regional cooperation.

Meantime, a Sudanese governmental organizations headed on Sunday for Geneva to take part in the works of the technical committee for joint humanitarian aids between the government and the rebellion movement under the auspices of the UN.

The Humanitarian aids commissioner Dr. Sulaf eddin Saleh said that Sudan will submit a protest against the bias position of the UN "Live Sudan" program in backing the rebellion movement.

Dr. Saleh explained that the "rebell areas receive aids from the said program more than the areas controlled by the government." He added that Sudan "will ask the UN that the said program to be monitored from Khartoum."