August 15, 2020 (Khartoum) Member of the US Senate and the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Cory Booker, has welcomed the arrival of Ambassador Nour-Eddin Satti, in Washington, and his appointment as the first Sudanese ambassador to the United States after more than two
decades.
The United States reduced diplomatic representation with Sudan to the level of charge d’affaires 23 years ago, and since 1993 Washington has put Khartoum on its list of countries sponsoring terrorism, due of its
relationship with Islamic terrorist organizations, including Al-Qaeda, whose former leader Osama bin Laden resided in Sudan during the period of 2005. 1992 to 1996.
Since the ouster of president Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, the new authorities in Khartoum have sought to normalize relations with Washington and remove Sudan from the US list of countries supporting
terrorism.
Booker said, according to a statement by the Sudanese Foreign Ministry, seen by Darfur 24 today, Saturday, that Congress has urged Secretary of State Pompeo and President Trump to nominate an American
ambassador to Sudan to support the new civilian government.
The new Sudanese ambassador to Washington is a veteran diplomat who served as Sudan’s ambassador to Paris in the early 1990s, before retiring and joining the United Nations, where he worked in its
peacekeeping missions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.