ALBURHAN: REMOVING SUDAN FROM U.S TERROR LIST PRIORITY FOR THE GOVERNMENT

By : Mohamed Ali Fazari
The head of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, confirmed that the Khartoum government is trying to take advantage of an available opportunity to remove its name from the American list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
Al-Burhan on Saturday said removing Sudan from the U.S. list of states sponsoring terrorism constitutes a priority for the transitional government.
Al-Burhan made the remarks when addressing the opening session of the first National Economic Conference, which kicked off in Khartoum on Saturday.
“Removing Sudan’s name from the list of states sponsoring terrorism will enable us to achieve reintegration in the global community, pump a renewable spirit in the national economy and reconstruct our external relations in a manner that enhances the national interest,” said al-Burhan.
He vowed to find viable solutions to the economic situation in the country.
The three-day conference aims to set up a roadmap to overcome the current economic problems. It is scheduled to discuss working papers and recommendations provided by 18 sector workshops that were recently organized in preparation of the conference.
The conference is also set to provide a platform for an open discussion on the issues of the Sudanese economy with the aim to remove the structural distortions, stop the economic deterioration, stabilize the commodities and exchange prices, stabilize the external balance and reduce budget deficit.
The conference comes in light of conflicting fiscal and monetary policies, weak production and exports, and increased demand for imports, which led to an imbalance in the trade balance, in addition to inflation, an increase in the burden of living on the citizen, a depreciation of the national currency, negative growth of the economy, increased unemployment and the poverty rate reached 65 percent.