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The Sudanese Council of Ministers revealed, last night, Sunday, that the United States had already stipulated, during the visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, last August, to normalize relations between Khartoum and Israel to remove Sudan from its list Black from countries sponsoring terrorism, which was rejected by Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok.
“During this visit, Pompeo presented the United States’ offer of recognition and normalization with Israel as a condition of removing Sudan from the list,” the cabinet said in a statement. However, he confirmed that Hamdok rejected this offer, asking that the two tracks and issues be separated from each other.
Agreement of principles
The council also added: “The US side suggested that President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make a four-way phone call to congratulate the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok, and to announce a principled agreement between Sudan and Israel on the normalization of relations. “
He explained that it was agreed to prepare an agreement between the two parties on the issue of “restoring relations between Sudan and Israel, which will be decided by the Legislative Council.”
Notably, Pompeo visited Sudan in late August as part of a regional tour, and was the first US Secretary of State to visit this country in 15 years.
That visit came months after the chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Uganda last February.
On Friday, Khartoum announced the end of the state of hostility between this country and Israel, according to a tripartite statement broadcast by Sudan, the United States and Israel on Sudanese state television, and the agreement was described as “historic”.
This cooperation agreement between the two countries has great symbolism, especially since after the 1967 war during which Israel occupied the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in addition to the Sinai and the Golan, the largest number of leaders Arabs met at a summit in Khartoum and adopted a resolution known as the “Three No’s”, namely there is no reconciliation or recognition or negotiation with Israel.
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