until very recently the ambassador in washington. are you satisfied with the response from the united states? oh, yes, i am quite satisfied. i m quite satisfied. the united states stood by us. many things have happened within the last year or so. we have been removed from the list of states sponsoring terrorism or benefiting. we were benefiting from the process, we re allowed to have considerable funds in the billions of dollars in order to redress the economy and opening up to the international financial system and so many things. hang on i can t believe, i m very surprised you re so satisfied with what you re hearing from washington, because since the october coup, when hamdok and his cabinet were removed, the us has been in a great deal of confusion. we ve had the two top officials responsible for sudan, jeffrey feltman and molly phee feltman the special envoy for the horn of africa, who s now actually retiring, and ms phee who works
at the state department they ve given very different signals about how tough they re prepared to be with the sudanese military. mr feltman talks of sanctions, ms phee seems much more conciliatory, and joe biden hasn t even appointed a us ambassador in khartoum. frankly, it doesn t look like the us is really paying that much attention to what is happening. they have been consistently pressuring the military and talking to them. even today, there was a conversation with some of them and they will continue. i think the build up, there s a build up that s going to happen. i m convinced that congress is considering sanctions. i m sure from the part of the administration they re going to be, they will really look into some other measures that they can take to pressure the military. and i think there is a build up that s happening from that point of view. do you want new sanctions imposed on sudan, mr satti?