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Quote: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Sudan News Brief Two big stories from Sudan today, both revolving around Sudan's relatively new Foreign Minister, Deng Alor, of the former rebel SPLM (he was appointed in October 2007, but I don't believe he took office until December, due to the SPLM ministers' temporary boycott of the central government... I may be wrong though) 1. Sudan will not attempt to win the Presidency of the African Union. The country failed in its bids to chair the AU for 2006 and 2007 due to international pressure over its gross human rights violations. From the Sudan Tribune story: "Last week it was reported that Sudan’s Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mutrif Siddiq rushed to Ethiopia to submit a last minute nomination for AU presidency." It does not say whether or not he did so with the consent of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deng Alor. Alor holds the position of Foreign Minister in the power-sharing central government of Sudan, largely to keep the Southern SPLM in the government (for the same reason his predecessor, Lam Akol, held the job, though Mr. Akol was considered to have gotten to close to Khartoum, which is why the SPLM sacked him). Mutrif Siddiq represents the old, Islamic core of the Khartoum regime. This move, to no longer seek the AU Presidency, is likely to be seen as a proverbial slap-in-the-face to old Khartoum. Mr. Alor is quoted as saying in the ST story: "Our focus in the coming period is to mend bridges with regional players as well as the international community." Those bridges need mending due to the heinous human rights record Khartoum has compiled to date. 2. Mr. Alor also bravely made public today the brow-beating he received from a top Chinese government official at an AU meeting in Ethiopia. China does not like to publicly chastise any other government, but Mr. Alor quoted the Chinese envoy's words to him. He said, ""the world is running out of patience over what’s going in Darfur." And he called on Sudan "not to do things that will cause the international community to impose sanctions on them." This is the great advantage of having at least parts of the CPA implemented, and of Sudan's government having a member of the SPLM in such a high-ranking position as Foreign Minister. If, say, Mutrif Siddiq had been Foreign Minister, he certainly would not have told reporters of the criticisms leveled at Sudan by China. Mr. Alor has only been Foreign Minister for a few months, but he is already proving himself to be a formidable force, willing to stand up to the corrupt, genocidal powers-that-be.