The Minister of Information, Dr. Kamal Obeid, has affirmed that his current visit to the Northern State comes in the context of the efforts for enhancing the information work in the country and to discuss the possibility of establishing partnerships in the context of the interim Constitution which determined the exclusive authorities of the center and the states.
The minister, who met yesterday the governor of the Northern State, Fathi Khalil in the presence of the leaderships of the information work in the state, has stressed the necessity for establishing joint mechanism for implementing plans for realization of the full information coverage through the Radio and TV transmission and SUNA.

President of the Republic, Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir, will begin today an official visit to the Arab Republic of Egypt during which he will hold talks with the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, and other senior Egyptian officials
Meanwhile, Sudan Ambassador to Cairo, Lt. Gen. Abdul-Rahman Siral-Khatim, said that the aim of the President Al-Bashir to Cairo is to affirm Sudan support to the Egyptian people under the current historic period in sister Egypt
He pointed out that the visit of President Al-Bashir is considered a reflection of the firm ties between the Sudanese and Egyptian peoples
Ambassador Lt. Gen. Siral-Khatim indicated that the visit of President Al-Bashir will be the first one to be paid to Egypt by an Arab president since eruption of the Egyptian Revolution
He added that President Al-Bashir will be accompanied during his visit to Egypt by a number of ministers and senior officials

The Minister of Finance and National Economy, Ali Mahmoud, has called on the Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development to engage in funding the development projects have been prepared,explaining that priority now in Sudan is being given to major projects such as dams and the new Khartoum airport.
He urged the Kuwaiti fund to extend finance for the two dams of Upper Atabara and Seteit rivers .
This came when the minister received at his office yesterday the Kuwaiti fund's Regional Director for the Arab States on Management of Operations, Murwan Abdalla.
The Minister praised the role of Kuwait in financing the development projects in the country, besides its keenness to fulfill the commitment that it has declared at the International Donors Conference for Development and Rehabilitation in East Sudan

The first meeting of the high committee assigned to following up the file of Darfur, chaired by President of the Republic Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir, Monday approved a recommendation on establishment of two new states in Darfur
The Presidental Advisor and the official of Darfur file, Dr. Ghazi Salahuddin, said in a press statement the recommendation came in response to what was put forward by a committee assigned with observing the situation in Darfur, which was formed according to the recommendations of the Forum of the People of Sudan on Darfur Issue, held in Kenana recently
He said that the meeting held fruitful deliberations over the recommendation in a view that it represents the will of the people of Darfur
He said that the meeting also deliberated on the issue of the Administrative Referendum in Darfur as one of the clauses of the Darfur Peace Agreement which was signed in Abuja in Nigeria
Dr. Salahuddin said that there is a legal commitment to hold a referendum on time as scheduled in next April, according to the agreement
He said that there is no contradiction between the administrative referendum and adopting the recommendation to establish the new states in Darfur in view that both of them have separate procedure and certain legal measures
The Presidential Advisor indicated that the high committee further discussed issues pertinent to humanitarian aid situation in Darfur and ways to reduce people's dependence on relief and humanitarain aid in order to enable the citizen return voluntarily to their home areas to get involved in the economic activity

The Sudanese and Indonisian Parliament agreed to re-activate the economic cooperation between the two countries.
The two parties agreed, to arrange a visit for a delegation of Indonisian businessmen from the companies working in all fields to visit Sudan, toward exchanging experiences, training and visits between the two countries.