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Sudan gov’t renews threat to cancel UNAMID mandate

20 August 2011 02:21 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The Sudanese government on Friday renewed its threats to cancel the mandate of the United Nations- African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) if the UN Security Council insisted to grant the mission new powers in the region, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

"The Sudanese government will cancel the UNAMID mandate if the UN Security Council insisted to grant it new powers outside the ones upon which the mission was established," Sudanese Presidential Assistant Nafie Ali Nafie told reporters here Friday.

Sudan has earlier officially notified the special representative of UN secretary general in Sudan for UNAMID Ibrahim Gambari Sudan’s absolute rejection of the Security Council’s resolution on the extension of UNAMID mandate with new powers.

Nafie also described the U.S. decision to keep Sudan on its list of countries sponsoring terrorism as "an American attempt to cover the crimes committed by America in a number of countries."

The U.S. State Department said in an annual report Thursday that it decided to keep Sudan on its list of countries sponsoring terrorism.

The United States put Sudan on the list in August 1993. It has promised earlier to remove Sudan from the list if the latter fulfilled its commitment to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) inked between the north and south Sudan, which led to the separation of the south.