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 شركة رولز رويس تعلن انسحابها من السودان بسبب دارفور!!
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LONDON, April 19 (Reuters) - Britain's Rolls-Royce Plc will withdraw from doing business in Sudan, it said on Thursday, citing concerns about political and humanitarian conditions in the African nation.
The move comes as talks start on a new U.N. resolution to try to end the violence in Sudan's vast Darfur region.
On Wednesday, U.S. President George W. Bush warned Sudan's president that he has one last chance to take steps to stop violence in Darfur or else the United States would impose sanctions and consider other punitive options.
"We have decided to discontinue our business there ... We will progressively withdraw from support activities," said a spokesman for Rolls-Royce, which is best known for cars but also makes equipment used to pump oil by companies such as Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company.
"The reason for this is the increasing political and humanitarian concerns in Sudan... we are not in Darfur, but we are in the country," the spokesman said.
He added that the company's operations in Sudan represented "a small percentage" of its marine business, which had sales of 1.3 billion pounds ($2.6 billion) last year accounting for 18 percent of Rolls-Royce's overall business.
He said there would be no need for Rolls to revise its financial guidance as a result of the withdrawal from Sudan.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday that the United States and the United Kingdom were set to begin discussions with partners in the United Nations Security Council on a new resolution on Sudan.
He said 200,000 people were dying in Darfur, two million had been forced to flee and four million were relying on food handouts to survive.
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