Assembly/AU/Decl.2(XXVI) Page 2 EXPRESSING its deep concern at the designation of the Republic of The Sudan as a State sponsoring terrorism by the Department of State of the United States of America, since 1993, which has restrained Sudan from playing active role in combating terrorism, smuggling and trafficking in persons, transnational crimes and illegal immigration; FURTHER RECOGNIZING The Sudan’s tireless effort in peace-making through the multifaceted negotiations in Chad, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Eritrea, Egypt, Libya, Qatar and many other countries, including, the signing and implementation of several agreements mainly the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that led to the establishment of the sisterly Republic of South Sudan, as well as the initiation of ongoing inclusive process of national dialogue to accommodate all the people of Sudan within national issues; TAKING NOTE of The Sudan’s initiative in the establishment of the Committee on Intelligence and Security Service in Africa (CISSA) in order to combat terrorism regionally and internationally; REAFFIRMING that no state may use or encourage the use of any type of measures including but not limited to economic or political measures, to coerce another state in order to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights and to secure from it advantages of any kind; UNDERLINING that under no circumstances should people be deprived of their basic means of survival; ALARMED by the disproportionate and indiscriminate human cost of the United States of America’s unilateral sanctions and their negative effects on civilian population, in particular women and children of The Sudan; 1. DECLARE our full support of the Republic of The Sudan until the comprehensive lifting of all unjust United States of America’s unilateral sanctions; 2. CALL UPON the United States of America to lift all its unilateral coercive measures, restrictions and sanctions imposed on the Republic of the Sudan as soon as possible to allow it to continue the peace building process; 3. REGRET the extraterritorial nature of the measures which, inter alia, impacts the payment of the financial contribution of The Sudan to the African Union, in addition to threatening the sovereignty of the country; 4. CALL UPON all states of the world not to recognize these measures or apply them, and to take effective administrative or legislative measures, as appropriate, to counter the extraterritorial application or effects of unilateral coercive measures;