EU establishes new framework for Sudans sanctions

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Today, the European Union has approved a new framework for Sudans sanctions that imposes assets freezes on persons and entities engaged in acts that threaten peace, stability or security of the Sudan, hindering or undermining efforts to resume political transition in the Sudan, impeding the delivery, access or distribution of humanitarian assistance or participating in acts that constitute serious human rights violations.

The new sanctions are based on existing European Union sanctions implementing the United Nations arms embargo, assets freeze and travel ban on those who obstruct the peace process or pose a threat to stability in Darfur and commit violations of human rights law.

The decision came just days after the United States included the leader of the Islamic Movement in the Sudan, Ali Karti, and a number of symbols of the former regime on the sanctions list, on the back of their role in disrupting any efforts to settle and end the war.

Last July, the British government imposed sanctions on companies associated with the leadership of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the leadership of the Rapid Support Forces, the military groups responsible for the conflict in the Sudan.