الصفقة السرية القذرة بين إدارة اوباما و نظام المجرم البشير

QUESTION: Where does the roadmap toward better relations with the Khartoum government stand? Has this violence been a setback to that?

AMBASSADOR LYMAN: No question it’s been a setback. We have told the government that it’s impossible to move forward on some of the key elements of the roadmap when they are bombing civilians and denying humanitarian access to Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan. It just can’t. So we have made that point clear, and it’s a fact.

MS. NULAND: Please.

QUESTION: What about the roadmap from the Khartoum government to remove them from the list of State Sponsor of Terrorism and sending a U.S. Ambassador?

AMBASSADOR LYMAN: Well, we’ve – as I said, we made it clear that we can’t move forward, let’s say, on the State Sponsors of Terrorism while this conflict is going on in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile. There are three aspects of it. There is the bombing, which it hit civilian areas almost indiscriminately. There’s the denial of humanitarian access by international agencies – World Food Program, UNICEF, et cetera. And there’s the need to get back to negotiations. All three of those are critical for us to be able to move forward and take up the issue of State Sponsor of Terrorism or other things on the roadmap. We’ve made that point quite, quite clear to the government of Khartoum.