تدعوكم مجموعة الضغط النسائية لتظاهرة إحتجاجية بلندن ضد مؤتمر المانحين

Quote: Sudan/Britain/China Sanctions bypass China has quietly joined countries implementing sanctions against Khartoum, we hear. This may not reduce Beijing’s substantial arms exports to Khartoum but it is making life difficult for business people, Sudanese and others. They rely on the international banks, which have to obey United States sanctions to operate globally. One response from the National Congress Party (NCP) regime is to call international meetings that blur the lines between aid and investment. One such is due on 27 November at London’s Millennium Hotel in Kensington. The ‘Sudan DDR Partners Support Summit’ is organised by the government’s ‘Sudan Demobilisation, Demilitarisation and Reintegration Commission’ and claims United Nations’ support. The invitation implies wider international support yet states, ‘This event is restricted to carefully chosen organisations and individuals that we see as potential facilitators’ in promoting DDR in Sudan and South Sudan. Details are supplied only after the aspiring attendee has tried to register. Chairman is DDR Commissioner Sulaf el Din Salih Mohamed Tahir, an inner core NCP man. In the 1990s, he headed Muessessa Muwafag el Kheiriya (Muwafag or Blessed Relief, later United States terrorist-listed, AC Vol 53 No 6) and is an associate of Saudi Arabia’s Yassin Abdullah Kadi who chaired Muwafag’s Board of Trustees. The USA has not lifted its terrorist designation of Kadi, although the relentless efforts of his London lawyers, Carter-Ruck, persuaded the European Union and United Nations to take him off their terrorist lists. Also speaking is Khartoum’s Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Kurti who, as founder of the People’s Defence Force militias, knows about DDR. Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office was ‘not supporting’ the meeting, an official told AC, ‘and we have not supported DDR for a good while’. The rebranded Department of Trade and Industry told us, ‘There’s definitely no involvement from UKTI. ’ The NCP regime held a similar meeting, ‘Sudan-Europe: Perspectives for Cooperation for Peace and Development’, in Vienna in late October. Several EU governments were involved, including Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Hungary, plus South Sudan. ‘People were talking about the embargo and trying to find a way around it,’ said one Sudanese present. Yet Khartoum failed to win hearts or wallets, said several Sudanese sources.