UN Security Council Removes Sanctions Against Sudan
Associated Press September 28, 2001

Terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center of September 11th delayed the scheduled September 13th vote by the United Nations Security Council on lifting sanctions against Sudan. The United States did not block the vote, but instead chose to abstain, allowing a resolution to lift the sanctions that the Non-Aligned Movement of developing countries first introduced in draft form in June 2000.The resolution won strong support from Russia's deputy ambassador to the U.N. Andrey Granovsky said Moscow. saying he was "satisfied with the way in which the government of Sudan has implemented the demands of the resolutions". He added that the resolution had strong support from Egypt, Ethiopia, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of African Unity, and Arab states. The U.S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations, James Cunningham, told the Security Council that "the United States government believes that the government of Sudan has taken substantial steps to meet the specific demands of the U.N. Security Council resolution...We note with concern, however, that the suspects wanted in connection with the 1995 assassination attempt on President Mubarak in Addis Ababa were not turned over to the appropriate authorities." The Sudanese Ambassador to the United Nations, Elfaith Mohamded, said, the resolution "has come as a fruit of enormous effort taken by Sudan to cooperate with the international community as represented by the Security Council."