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Mubarak makes surprise trip to Sudan

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made a surprise visit to Khartoum yesterday, his first in more than a decade, and held talks with Sudan's president on the conflict in the Darfur region.

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  • Published: 00:00 April 5, 2006
  • Gulf News

Khartoum: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made a surprise visit to Khartoum yesterday, his first in more than a decade, and held talks with Sudan's president on the conflict in the Darfur region.

The talks came a day after a top UN envoy, Jan Egeland, protested over what he called a Sudanese government decision to bar him from visiting Darfur and Khartoum this week.

Egeland, UN undersecretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, said the government was trying to prevent him from seeing the deteriorating situation in the war-torn region. The West Darfur state government acknowledged not allowing his flight to land, though the central government denied barring him.

Mubarak and Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir held talks on developments in the situation in Darfur, Sudan's state news agency reported.

In Cairo, Foreign Minister Ahmad Aboul Gaith told reporters that the two leaders were pursuing "efforts to achieve peace agreement that provides stability and development to the people of Sudan and especially the people of Darfur."

Asked about sending Arab troops to Darfur, Aboul Gaith said this should be "within the framework of a peace agreement to be reached between the Sudanese government and the other parties of the conflict."

Mubarak has not visited Sudan since the 1995 assassination attempt on his life in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which senior Sudanese officials were thought to have been behind.

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