Korea-Africa
Center Executive Director, Il-soo Kim was received in Sudan for the
first time last week at the invitation of Ahmed Saad Omer, the Minister
of Cabinet.
During his three- day visit,
the Korean official met with a number of Sudanese officials and visited
General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, Center for Strategic
Studies, Consultancy Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, Global
Research Center, Sudanese Standards and Metrology Organizations,
Strategic Planning Center, etc.At the meeting of Executive
Director Kim and Minister Omer, the minister expressed satisfaction with
the strengthening Korea-Sudan relations and called Korea-Africa Center
to make efforts to help Korean companies finding more business
opportunities in the Sudan, in case that the U.S. economic sanctions are
lifted in July.The Korean official confirmed
the high potential of Sudanese economy through his visit, pointing out
that the Korea-Africa Center will not only raise awareness of the means
in Korea through various business forums, seminars, research and
exchange activities, but also will make efforts to make economic
cooperation.In addition, Executive
Director Kim and representative research institutions such as Center for
Strategic Studies and Global Research Center, discussed various
cooperation plans as well as possibility of signing future cooperation
MoU, joint research and human interchange.The visit comes ahead of the
40th anniversary of the Korea-Sudan diplomatic ties in 2017 and the
decision to lift the U.S. sanctions on the Sudan in July.The Korea-Sudan relations,
which had been somewhat stagnant in the 2000s, began to revitalize in
November 2016, following the visit of Ibrahim Ghandour, the Foreign
Minister. Especially in April this year, Tae-ho Lee, the Deputy Foreign
Minister for Economic Affairs visited Khartoum, and held High-level
Policy Consultation Meeting with Abdelghani Elnaim, the Deputy Foreign
Minister of the Sudan and discussed the plan to strengthen cooperation
in various fields between the two countries.
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