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Obama eases ban on dual-use exports to Sudan
'to facilitate' January referendums

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has lifted a ban on U.S. aid and eased dual-use exports to Sudan in a decision meant to expedite two referendums in January 2011.

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The announcement on Nov. 19 would enable the delivery of computers to Sudan for United Nations' monitoring of the referendum to determine the fate of the non-Muslim south.

"I hereby determine it is in the national security interest of the United States to waive the application of section 908[a] [1] of TSRA [Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act] to allow export assistance to be made available for the export of computers and related equipment that enables the United Nations to facilitate the referendum in Southern Sudan pursuant to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement," the president said in a memorandum.


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The memorandum ordered a waiver of a section of the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act from Khartoum. The legislation has banned U.S. aid and commercial exports to Sudan, which appears on the State Department's list of terrorist sponsors.

The Obama administration has offered Sudan a package of incentives that included its removal from the U.S. list of terrorist sponsors. Khartoum was said to harbor Hamas and other insurgency groups.

The UN has been administering two referendums, scheduled for Jan. 9. One vote would determine whether the south secedes from the Muslim north, and the other concerned the fate of the oil-rich area of Abyei.



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