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| Sudanese FM refutes US stance on Darfur |
| | www.chinaview.cn 2004-09-13 16:52:29 |
SEOUL, Sept. 13
(Xinhuanet) --The visiting Sudanese foreign minister, at a press conference here
Monday, urged the international community not to be swayed by information
manipulated by Washington about humanitarian crisis at Sudan's western area of
Darfur.
Concluding his five-day visit in South Korea,
Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said that the United States is
plotting to scapegoat Sudan as it did Iraq for its own political agenda before
its presidential election in November.
Sudan has been
increasingly at loggerheads with the United States over what Washington claims
there existing genocide backed by the Sudanese government in the Darfur region.
International pressure has been escalating on Sudan to take
more concrete actions to get grips with the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, with
the United States considering oil sanctions against the country.
"Look at what is going on in Iraq. The United States kept
saying there were weapons of mass destruction. The same thing as genocide. After
six months, it will say there is no genocide (in Sudan)," Ismail was quoted by
South Korean Yonhap News Agency as saying.
Ismail said that
Washington's stance on the Darfur issue is "irrational, unrealistic and
unbalanced."
The Sudanese foreign minister also said George
W. Bush's administration is using the Darfur issue to distract attention from
what is taking place in Iraq to avoid pressure from the
Democrats.
Ismail stressed that his country has the capacity
and means to resolve its decades-long internal conflicts without US
interference.
He said: "We are seeking solutions based on
three categories: humanitarian, security and political," and "The final
round of negotiations is under way, and Sudan will be in whole peace next year."
He noted that the ongoing problem in Darfur is not
genocide, but is a "conflict between nomadic tribes and agricultural
ones."
Sudan is not arming and backing Arab militias, known
as Janjaweed, in the crisis in Darfur, he said.
Ismail
arrived in South Korean on Sept. 9 and is to left here later
Monday.
During his stay here, he met with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon. Enditem |
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