The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivered to the U.S. embassy in Khartoum on Wednesday a message of protest against the raid of American troops upon the Sudanse embassy in Baghdad.

The Director of the American Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdul-Basit Badawi Al-Sanousi, conveyed the message to the American deputy charge d'Affaires in Khartoum, the official SUNA news agency reported.

In the message, the Sudanese government described the Tuesday raid as "contravening the diplomatic principles and Vienna Convention".

Ali Al-Saddiq, the spokesman of the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that its government had demanded the U.S. administration to officially apologize over the conduct of the American troops against the Sudanese Embassy in Baghdad, urging that this conduct should not be repeated.

The spokesman said that the Amercian diplomat pledged to transmit this message of protest to the American government.

In a related development, the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Wednesday Ambassador of Iraq to Sudan Samir Khairi Al-Nemaa and conveyed to him the Sudanese government's protest on the incident of storming the Sudanese Embassy in Baghdad by an American troops.

On Tuesday, the American troops in Iraq broke into the Sudanese Embassy, attensively searched the compound and arrested some two dozens of security guards, including five Sudanese citizens.

The Sudanese Embassy in Baghdad has remained closed since last year following abduction of a number of staff members. The embassy discharges its work now from the Jordanian capital of Amman.

Source: Xinhua