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Al-Bashir: The international community has lost much trying to isolate Sudan

December 15, 2015 at 1:00 pm

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir stressed that the international community has “lost a lot” in its attempts to isolate Sudan from the international arena because Sudan would have provided a model of tolerance that is absent from today’s turbulent world.

In a speech he gave on Monday at a conference organised by the Sudanese ruling party, the National Congress, Al-Bashir said that “the forces of tyranny and oppression have waged a relentless war” against his country.

During the conference titled the Thought Conference, Al Bashir stressed Sudan’s need for “thought” to deal with various issues in a way that lives up to the requirements of the modern era.

Al-Bashir urged the conference’s attendees “to consider the political, social and cultural changes in the country after the secession of the south” so as to avoid repeating the same scenario and stick with dialogue and integration.

On 3 November 1997, the then US President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 13067 imposing sanctions on Sudan. The Executive Order forbids US companies from investment in or economic cooperation with Sudan.

US President George W. Bush renewed these sanctions in 2006 and expanded them at the end of May 2007 to include companies and people who were not covered by previous decisions.

Sudanese observers believe that these sanctions stipulate Sudan’s fulfilment of three conditions: freedom of humanitarian organizations to operate and enter and exit Sudan; the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement; and finding comprehensive and lasting peace in Darfur.