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Ministry of Foreign Affairs refutes Carter's Statement about the North bearing to all Sudan external debts
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Jan 11, 2011 - 5:32:44 AM
Ministry of Foreign Affairs refutes Carter's Statement about the North bearing to all Sudan external debts
Khartoum, Jan. 10 (SUNA) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has categorically refuted the statements of the former US President, Jimmy Carter, to the CNN as circulated by the media that the President of the Republic told him that the Sudan's entire indebtedness would be beared by north Sudan
The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Khalid Musa, explained that the President of the Republic affirmed to President Carter during the meeting Sudan's strong call on the international community to take the initiative in writing off Sudan's debts as part of the Debt Relief for Developing Countries and the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative in a view that the country, both in the North and South, have not enough resources to pay these debts, taking into consideration the expected exhaustion and decrease of the North oil revenues, besides the South' alert to confront its new challenges in the case the southerners opted for separation
The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the President of the Republic said during his meeting with Carter that paying the Debts is a joint responsibility of the North and the South under joint negotiations of the two partners
Musa said that the African Union's committee for Sudan, which is headed by the former president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, linked between the settlement of Sudan's foreign debts and solving the other economic pending issues between the two partners. Musa renewed the strong stance of the government to make the International community take the initiative to write off Sudan debts through the initiative of HIPC especially that the government has fulfilled its commitments toward the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA)
He attributed the deprivation of Sudan from its financial and economic rights in the international financial institutions is a politically-motivated act
Musa said that settling Sudan's debts is one of the pending issues in the negotiations between the two partners
He commended the initiative of some countries in writing off part of Sudan debts to them in support to the sustainable peace, urging the other countries to follow suit of these countries, either at the bilateral level or collectively within framework of the international financial institutions. MF/MO
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