The parliament, however, said the aid intended for Sudan should be granted gradually and must be managed as much as possible by humanitarian organisations operating in the country.

The Sudanese government should not benefit from it until it ends any form of violence in Darfour and accepts to cooperate with the International Criminal Court on the abuses that have taken place in the western region, the parliament said.

The European deputies also denounced the arrest of two Sudanese human rights organisation officials.