On
Sudan US State Dept Says
Progress with FM of Bashir on
North Korea Sanctions UN Took
Award from Bashir
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, November 7 – Long
time US
diplomat
Princeton
Lyman died ten
weeks ago,
after many
years of work for
the US on
Sudan and
South Sudan, even
as the UN fell
deeper into
stasis and
censorship now
under Antonio
Guterres, whose
last Sudan rep
took from Omar
al Bashir a
"Two Niles"
award despite
his indictment
for genocide.
Now on
November 7 on
Sudan, this
from the US
State
Department
spokesperson
(and perhaps
soon more)
Hether Nauert:
"Yesterday,
during
bilateral
meetings in
Washington,
D.C., Deputy
Secretary of
State John J.
Sullivan and
the Sudanese
Foreign
Minister
Dirdeiry
Mohamed Ahmed
discussed the
launch of the
“Phase II”
framework for
our bilateral
engagement.
Phase II is
designed to
expand our
bilateral
cooperation,
facilitate
meaningful
reforms to
enhance
stability in
Sudan, and
achieve
further
progress in a
number of
areas of
longstanding
concern.
The United
States
welcomes
Sudan’s
commitment to
making
progress in
key
areas.
Those key
areas include
expanding
counterterrorism
cooperation,
enhancing
human rights
protections
and practices,
including
freedoms of
religion and
press,
improving
humanitarian
access,
ceasing
internal
hostilities
and creating a
more conducive
environment
for progress
in Sudan’s
peace process,
taking steps
to address
certain
outstanding
terrorism-related
claims, and
adhering to UN
Security
Council
resolutions
related to
North
Korea.
As part of
this process,
the United
States is
prepared to
initiate the
process of
rescinding
Sudan’s
designation as
a State
Sponsor of
Terrorism if
the
determination
is made that
all of the
relevant
statutory
criteria have
been met, and
if Sudan makes
progress in
addressing
each of the
six key areas
of mutual
concern
prioritized by
the Phase II
framework.
The United
States is
ready to
cooperate with
Sudan and to
monitor
progress as we
seek
meaningful
developments
for the
benefit of the
Sudanese
people and the
region."
Lyman while
working on the
Sudan and
South Sudan
issues came to
the UN on
February 22,
2012 to brief
the Security
Council. The
meeting was
closed, and
the UN hardly
covered it or
Lyman's
presence. But
attendees whom
Inner City
Press
interviewed
outside the
meeting room -
a practice now
frowned on and
punished at
the UN - were
full of praise
for Lyman's
approach. "If
only they
would listen
to him," one
said. If only.
The praise of
Lyman was a
recurring
theme on the
afternoon of
August 25,
2018 outside
the US Mission
to the UN
which Inner
City Press covered
from the
sidewalk, with
former Deputy
Ambassador
David Pressman
passing
by.
Notably, the
praise was
bipartisan.
The Sudans
were only one
part of
Lyman's long
career,
including as a
mentor to
many: he began
his career
with US Agency
for
International
Development,
first serving
in Korea and
later as the
Director in
Ethiopia. He
moved to the
Department of
State where he
served as the
US Ambassador
to Nigeria.
Other
assignments
included
Deputy
Assistant
Secretary of
State for
African
Affairs,
Director of
Refugee
Programs, and
Assistant
Secretary of
State for
International
Organization
Affairs. He
served as US
Ambassador to
South Africa
during the
momentous
election of
Nelson Mandela
and as the US
envoy to Sudan
and South
Sudan, where
he helped to
implement the
2005
Comprehensive
Peace
Agreement.
Ambassador
Lyman was the
Senior Advisor
to the
President of
US Institute
of Peace, the
Ralph Bunche
Fellow for
African
Affairs at the
Council on
Foreign
Relations, and
and an adjunct
professor at
Georgetown
University and
the Johns
Hopkins School
for Advanced
International
Studies.
Arrangements
are via Hines-Rinaldi Funeral
Home in Silver Spring,
Maryland where for now Arlene
Maclin has said, "Princeton
was a kind and caring man, who
devoted his professional life
to the betterment of the lives
of many people on the African
Continent. He was a dedicated
and committed diplomat and all
Americans owe him a tremendous
debt for his long service to
our nation." Rest in peace.
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