Washington approves first Sudanese ambassador in 23 years

On Sep 20, 2020 7:49 AM

SANAA, Sept. 20 (YPA) – The United States of America on Saturday approved the papers of the new Sudanese ambassador to Washington, Noureddine Sati, after a 23-year interruption of diplomatic representation.

Ambassador Sati presented the credentials to US President Donald Trump, last Thursday, as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Sudan to the United States.

The Sudanese News Agency, “Sona”, announced, on Saturday, that Ambassador Noureddine Sati presented the credentials to President Donald Trump during a ceremony at the White House.

The Sudanese Government News Agency reported that the US president expressed his “happiness and gratitude” for this appointment and “looked forward to a prosperous start in the bilateral relations between the two countries.”

Noting that Sati “expressed his optimism about the coming period in relations between the two countries and his endeavor to strengthen cooperation between them in all fields, especially the economic aspect.”

Washington’s accreditation as its ambassador to Sudan coincides with Emirati pressure on the Sudanese government to join the UAE and Bahrain on the train of normalization with the Israeli enemy.

The new authorities in Khartoum are seeking to normalize relations with Washington and remove Sudan from the American list of states supporting terrorism included in it since 1993.

The Sudanese efforts were launched by Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok upon his visit to Washington at the end of 2019, by announcing the lifting of diplomatic representation, which had been reduced to the charge d’affaires since 1998.

In early April, the Sudanese government signed a settlement agreement with the families of 17 American sailors who were killed in the bombing of the US destroyer U. S. Cole off the port of Aden in 2000.

It is noteworthy that Sati worked as Sudan’s ambassador to Paris in the early 1990s, and then retired and joined the UN peacekeeping missions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.