The Obama administration is set to lift some financial sanctions against Sudan, senior U.S. officials said Thursday.
The White House is expected to make the announcement Friday. The easing of sanctions is in response to positive actions by the Sudanese government in fighting terrorism, reducing conflict, denying safe haven to South Sudanese rebels and improving humanitarian access to people in need.
The United States first imposed sanctions on Sudan in 1997, including a trade embargo and blocking the government's assets, for human rights violations and terrorism concerns. The United States layered on more sanctions in 2006 for what it said was complicity in the violence in Darfur.
Sudanese Information Minister Ahmed Bilal, speaking with VOA's James Butty, welcomed the news of the lifting of the sanctions because, he said, they "have had a devastating impact on the country and its people." He said sanctions increased "the misery of the people" who could not leave the country to get medical treatment or import technology.
U.S. officials said the lifting of the sanctions had no bearing on Sudan's designation by the United States as a state sponsor of terrorism. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and genocide.
美国高级官员星期四说,奥巴马政府准备放松对苏丹的某些经济制裁。
白宫将于星期五正式宣布这个决定。放松制裁的原因是苏丹政府采取积极措施打击恐怖主义,减少冲突,拒绝给南苏丹反叛组织提供庇护,以及改善人道救援发放。
美国1997年第一次因侵犯人权和恐怖主义事宜向苏丹实施贸易禁运和封锁政府资产等制裁。2006年美国又因达尔富尔的暴力冲突对苏丹增加了制裁措施。
苏丹资讯部长阿赫麦德·比莱尔对美国之音表示,苏丹欢迎美国放松制裁的消息,他说这些制裁对于苏丹以及苏丹人民:“造成了灾难性的影响”,增加了人们的痛苦,让他们无法出国治病或是尽快高科技产品。
美国官员说,放松制裁不影响美国把苏丹列为支持恐怖主义的国家。苏丹总统巴希尔由于战争罪和种族灭绝而受到国际刑事法庭通缉。
上一篇: 2017最精彩的8部历史片
下一篇: 奥巴马将终止对古巴人的庇护优惠政策
别误会这些英文(八)
Japanese columnist caught in university fib
Beijing stalled on top of traffic jam list
That would be stretching it
Elevator risk going up
In Bangladesh, Internet rolls into villages on a bike
Canberra to emphasize education, language studies
'Pandas' hot to globe-trot
Overloaded trucks at fault for bridge collapse
Australia maps out its Asia 'pivot'
Superstorm batters East Coast, killing 16
Vanishing languages saved for posterity
Recall system to impose heavy fines
Navy completes military exercise in the Pacific
Superstorm getting stronger
'Fearless Felix' breaks the sound barrier
别误会这些英文(七)
Predators use Facebook to abduct Indonesian girls
Virus compared with SARS not found in China
Kennedy cousin denied parole for killing girl in 1975
Last word?
Forgotten bunker provides glimpse of wartime Hanoi
Ex-security officials to try easing tensions
Getting the elderly to eat well
More officials probed for graft
Jack of all trades?
Bid to control Web heads for showdown
Toy firm set to play abroad
Philippines, Muslim rebels agree landmark peace deal
Writers win copyright lawsuit against Baidu