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...think there are pressure groups in the United States that are stronger than the government's obligations. After we signed the peace agreement in Abuja, I received a telephone call from President Bush personally, and he spoke with great admiration and appreciation to what had been achieved in Abuja, and that the United Sates was now ready to interact with all openness with Sudan. But of course, he couldn't continue along this line...
...Sudan that were placed because of the attempt on the life of President [Hosni] Mubarak [of Egypt] in Addis Ababa were removed. U.S. special envoys that came to us - and I recall [John] Danforth and [Robert] Zoellick - Danforth came and had an appreciated role in helping reach a peace agreement in southern Sudan. He tied the removal of Sudan [from the State Sponsors of Terror list] and the removal of sanctions and the blockade against Sudan, and normalizing relations [with the U.S.], to the signing of the peace agreement. He did not mention terrorism or any other activities of Sudan...
Zoellick repeated this when he was [Deputy] Secretary of State, and mentioned that after signing the Darfur Peace Agreement in Abuja, that Sudan will be removed from the terrorism list, and sanctions will be removed and relations will be normalized. In both cases we were not asked to stop any hostile foreign activities that require these punishments. The only requirement was to sign the peace agreement...
Until now, no specific action has been required of us in order to have these punishments removed. We were asked to sign a peace agreement to have the punishments removed. We signed, and they have not been removed. We think that the most recent special envoy's efforts, General Gration, and the new direction the American administration is taking to change the policies of the previous administration, and not to fall [to the] same mistakes -we have great hope that these efforts. And with the complete cooperation between us and the American special envoy, we will normalize relations with...
...Comprehensive Peace Agreement between north and south Sudan that ended more than 30 years of civil war ... was supposed to make unity attractive. But no one can say unity is attractive now. It seems undoubted that the south will vote to secede [in 2011]. If the south does vote to secede, what will be the north's reaction...