Intel: Sudan's Ministerial Council weighs in on Israel normalization
Sudan's leaders anticipate economic benefits from the agreement, which is opposed by opposition parties.
Sudan’s Council of Ministers released a statement on Sunday about the country’s moves to normalize relations with Israel, the interim body’s first acknowledgment since US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that Sudan would be the latest country in the region to recognize the Jewish state.
The statement was careful to emphasize the economic benefits that would come to Sudan as a result of the Trump administration removing Khartoum from the US state sponsors of terror list.
It also reiterated that Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok requested the US administration decouple the two processes and that full normalization — though agreed to in principle during a three-way phone call between the leaders on Friday — will require approval by a legislative council that has yet to be formed.
Despite an agreement in principle reached months earlier on de-listing Sudan, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo raised a new request during a trip to Khartoum in August: that Sudan recognize Israel. Hamdok demurred, but negotiations continued.
