Sudan charges US with seeking to topple regime
AFP, February, 2007
KHARTOUM (AFP) — Sudan accused Washington of seeking to overthrow the regime of President Omar al-Beshir by using rights groups and foreign powers, a top presidential adviser was quoted as saying.
"The new American strategy for dismantling the Sudanese government from within is based on inciting international pressure on Khartoum through human rights institutions and by bringing into the country elements opposed to the government," Mustafa Osman Ismail said.
In comments carried by the official SUNA news agency, Ismail added that relations with Europe have also been fraught because states there are "influenced by the American strategy through its client in Europe -- Britain."
His comments came in the wake of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa on Monday when Sudan was once again passed over for the rotating leadership of the union because of the ongoing conflict in the war-torn region of Darfur.
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