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Khartoum welcomes US mediation

    NAIROBI

    The Sudan government said on Sunday it would welcome US mediation between it and SPLA leader John Garang “if this would help to bring about peace in the country”. The Egyptian news agency MENA quoted Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Uthman Ismail as saying his country would accept these efforts if “this represents a new trend in the efforts to establish peace in Sudan”, despite US “antagonism” to the Sudanese government. Ismail, who was in Cairo for talks with his Eygptian counterpart, also stressed that the Libyan-Egyptian peace initiative for Sudan “is not a substitute” for the IGAD initiative. He said his country was eager for the two initiatives to be seen as “complementary” and “eventually integrated”.

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