Ambassador Asma: Restructuring will be Conducted at Foreign Ministry

Khartoum,  (SUNA) – The Foreign Minister, Ambassador Asma Mohamed Abdalla, said that she had held 47 bilateral meetings with foreign ministers and delegations of international and regional organizations on the sidelines of her participation in the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
At the regular meeting of the Council of Ministers Wednesday, she expressed that she will focus in the coming period for the restructuring of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Sudan embassies abroad to keep up with the next stage.

The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ibrahim Badawi, said that he held meetings with both the French President of the Treasury and the Minister of Finance in the presence of the Prime Minister, and discussed the role of the Paris Club and the steps related to writing off Sudan debts and the commitment of France to cancel its debts of Sudan, in addition to support to the implementation of electricity and railways projects.

He pointed out his ministry’s concern with addressing living issues and providing funding to employ 100,000 youths to work in committees for control at the fuel stations and bakeries to ensure that fuel and wheat flour are not leaked in the capital and the states, and to guarantee their flow through the specified channels, besides implementing the electronic monitoring project for trucks and encouraging the cooperative sector to carry out its role.

The Minister of Finance called on the Council of Ministers to sell the confiscated National Congress Party’s properties at an auction and to allocate the proceeds to support the Ministry of Finance’s resources to pay the installments of some Arab funds, in addition to enacting new legislation that gives the ministers jurisdiction to address the structural defects in their ministries and to alter the inefficient departments in the next phase.