New Delhi, April 27: Sudan today sought India’s help in lifting of economic sanctions imposed on it by the United States in the late 1990s.
“We have sought help in removal of sanctions put on Sudan by America,” Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti said at a press conference after meeting his Indian counterpart S M Krishna.
The meeting comes in the backdrop of the division of the oil-rich northeastern African country. India had welcomed the outcome of the January referendum in which southern Sudan voted for independence and said it looks forward to working closely with both sides.
Karti said he briefed Indian leadership about the new developments leading towards peace and creation of a South Sudan there.
In 1997, the US Congress had placed economic sanctions on Sudanese government, which America had declared as a “sponsor of terrorism and a relentless oppressor of its minority Christian population.
-Agencies