The National Assembly will deliberate today Wednesdayon a report concerning the Elections Act of the year 2008,amended in 2011 in the third phase of its by the Legislation and Justice Committee. The NA will hear another report of its Animal, Agriculture and Water Committee on the bill for organization of the agricultural and animal production for the year 2011 in the third reading phase.
In a separate development the NAchaired by its Speaker Ahmed Ibrahim Al Tahir, Monday unanimously approved the statement of the Ministry of the Council of Ministers on the qualitative report of the unit of follow-up of implementation of Khartoum International Airport project which was presented by Dr. Mohamed Mukhtar, Minister of State at the Cabinet.
The statement explained that the project of Khartoum international airport was restructured in order to be implemented in four stages due to lack of total finance , where the first stage with capacity of 4-6 passengers per year which will take three years is to be finished by the end of the year 2014, while the second stage will be completed in the year 2020 with the capacity of 6 to 8 passengers per year, and the third stage to be completed in three years in the 2027 where the capacity will reach 8-9 million passengers per year The fourth stage is the stage of the distant future which include expansions according to the needed in the halls to reach capacity of 35 million passengers per year.
The Minister also noted that communications of the Government of Sudan with Arab funds, which have been adopted during the meetings of Arab funds in Khartoum on the first of April 2010 and the subsequent procedure in each Fund where the total funds reached $ 321 million, indicating that the promised amounts are U.S. $ 2500 million He added that the government in its efforts to bridge the funding gap has paid $ 50 million as part of the initial cost of the airport, while the government's efforts resulted in the entry of brotherly and friendly countries to bridge the gap where Turkey has contributed with $ 140 million to complete the first stage of the project in the planned 36 months The statement also indicated that the expected amount of the contribution of China in the implementation of some components of the airport will reach in its total of $ 600 million from the Bank of China for Import and Export.

Meetings of Executive Council for the Organization of the Unity of the African Trade Unions will begin today Wednesday in Khartoum and will be followed by the34th meeting of the General Council which is headed by Sudan. Chairman of the Organization of the Unity of the African Trade Unions and Sudan Workers Trade Unions Federation (SWTUF) Ibrahim Ghandour, said that the Executive Office will discuss a report on the performance of organization's Secretariat in the past year, besides a financial report that will be presented to the General Council for approval. Mr. Ghandour indicated that the General Council of the Organization is the ruling body in the absence of the General Conference that represents all the African States, pointing out that number of the states participating in the meetings of the General Council is 44 African States, which is the largest participation in the history of the organization.

Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Engineer, Kamal Ali Mohamed had talks with his Egyptian counterpart Hussein Al-Atfi on the coordination between the two countries and strengthening of cooperation with all the Nile Basin Countries to work out reconciliatory formula on the Frame work Agreement.
The minister said following the meeting that the talks discussed the on going preparations for holding the meetings of the Joint Technical Corporation for the Nile Water which will review, among other issues, the joint projects and the cooperation with the international organizations. Engineer. Mohamed said Sudan and Egypt give due concern to support the Nile Basin Countries in the context of using the water resources.

The Minister of Oil Luwal Achwel Deng, has concluded a visit to Bashayer (1) and (2) in Port Sudan the capital of the Red Sea State through which he inspected the loading and transportation of the Sudanese crude oil. Mr. Deng also visited the Branch of the Sudanese Oil Company in Port Sudan and praised its active role and coordination with the Ministry of Oil and Administrations in Khartoum, particularly the General Administration of Oil Supplies and Marketing and the process of the exportation and Importation.
He also toured the oil facilities and the strategic petroleum depots in the Red Sea State. He directed the oil and petroleum companies to provide social services in coordination with state government. Meanwhile, the governor of the Red Sea State, Mohamed Tahir Aila touched on the cooperation between the Ministry of Oil and the petroleum companies as well as their cooperation with the government of the Red Sea State in different domains.

The Under-Secretary of the Foreign Ministry Rahmatalla Mohamed Osman, received at his office Tuesday the Ambassador of Brazil to Sudan, Antonio Carlos Do Nascimento Pedro, and reviewed means of support to Brazil application to join membership of the Organization of Islamic Conference as an observer.
The Sudanese Dilomat expressed Sudan pledge to support the Brazilian application; especially that Brazil is engaged in good relations with the Islamic and Arab states.
The meeting also tackled ways to reactivate the economic relations between Sudan and Brazil in the light of the agreements signed by the two countries, the visits being exchanged between the two countries at all levels and holding the first meeting of the Joint Economic Committee. The Brazilian Ambassador reviewed the Brazilian suggestion on cooperation between Sudan and (PRIX) Group that comprises Brazil, India, South Africa and China concerning support to the writing off of Sudan external debts.