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US envoy heads to Sudan, Ethiopia



Saturday, 29 January 2011

Addis Ababa, January 29 (WIC) - The US Sudan envoy left Friday for an African Union summit in Ethiopia ahead of a trip to Sudan and south Sudan, which voted for independence this month, the State Department said.

Major General Scott Gration was to accompany Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg to the Sudanese capital Khartoum and the southern regional capital Juba, it said in a statement.

According to AFP, Gration also planned to visit Port Sudan, to check on the implementation of a peace agreement in the country's east, as well as the war-torn western Darfur region to discuss peace efforts there.

It will be his 25th trip to the country as special envoy.

In a peaceful referendum held earlier this month 99 percent of mostly Christian and animist south Sudan voted to secede from the Muslim-dominated north.

The vote was part of a 2005 peace agreement that ended more than two decades of civil war that killed more than two million people.
Sudan wants ‘new page’ in US relations
The Associated Press
Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011 | 3:01 a.m.
Sudan is calling for "a new page" in U.S. relations following the completion of a referendum that is likely to lead to independence for Southern Sudan.
The country's foreign minister, Ali Ahmed Karti, met with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday. In a speech in Washington, he said that his government is committed to peace with the South and will honor the outcome of the referendum.
Early results show strong support for secession. Final results are due in early February.
The U.S. has offered Sudan a range of incentives if it peacefully accepts the results. They include improved relations after years of discord and possibly dropping it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Karti said: "It's time to turn a new page."
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said that in her meeting with Karti, Clinton "reaffirmed U.S. willingness to take steps toward normalization of relations, as Sudan meets its commitments."