Friday
Apr012011
Obama Taps Special Envoy To Sudan
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 8:30AMPresident Barack Obama appointed Ambassador Princeton Lyman as the new Special Envoy to Sudan Wednesday.
“Lyman will oversee our support for full implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, reduced tensions between north and south over the status of Abyei, the birth of an independent South Sudan on July 9, 2011, and a definitive end to the conflict in Darfur,” Obama said in a statement.
Lyman was previously the State Department’s Senior Advisor on Sudan North-South Negotiations. His new position was previously held by General Scott Gration, who has been nominated as the Ambassador to Kenya.
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