Thursday, March 10, 2005
Reuters: Typo alarms Sudan over nuclear testing
Khartoum- A stenographer for the US Congress generated alarm in Sudan this week by giving the mistaken impression the US conducted nuclear tests in Sudan in 1962 and 1970.
The Sudanese government asked the US for an explanation. The US began its own investigations into a website report that a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee had talked about the tests in Sudan.
But Foreign Minsiter Mustafa Osman Ismail who summoned the US charge d'affaires on hearing the news said it turned out that the word "Sudan" was merely a typing error for "Sedan" the name of a nuclear test site in Nevada.
The US administration said there is a typing mistake, he told reporters. The US embassy official in Khartoum said in a statement affirming no tests were made in Sudan. The official transcript of the hearing has already been corrected.
Ismail said he was very relieved the reports were not true.
The Sudanese government asked the US for an explanation. The US began its own investigations into a website report that a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee had talked about the tests in Sudan.
But Foreign Minsiter Mustafa Osman Ismail who summoned the US charge d'affaires on hearing the news said it turned out that the word "Sudan" was merely a typing error for "Sedan" the name of a nuclear test site in Nevada.
The US administration said there is a typing mistake, he told reporters. The US embassy official in Khartoum said in a statement affirming no tests were made in Sudan. The official transcript of the hearing has already been corrected.
Ismail said he was very relieved the reports were not true.
