Brussels, 22/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - One of the last things done by the Italian Presidency of the Council of the EU was to organise a meeting in Khartoum (Sudan) on 18 December between an EU Troika headed by Italian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alfredo Mantica, and the Sudan foreign minister Mustafa Osman Imail in the framework of the EU-Sudan political dialogue launched in November 1999. A joint press release issued on 22 December notes: 'The two parties welcomed the considerable...