VOL. XXXIII

NO. 39

2-JULY-1990

Sudan

Sun Oil Issues Statement on Withdrawal from the Sudan

Sun Company of the US issued a statement on 19 June strongly denying a reportpublished by the Middle East News Agency (MENA) which quoted an official of theSudanese Ministry of Energy and Mining as saying that the company hadwithdrawn from the Sudan "because of financial difficulties" (MEES,25 June). The Sun spokesman said that the Sudanese statement represented aneffort by the government to "peddle this...