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22 Jan 2007

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AP

Siemens to Pull Business Out of Sudan

Europe's largest electronics and electrical engineering company, will pull all business operations out of Sudan by mid-summer in light of the humanitarian conditions in the war-torn country, the company said Monday. That follows remarks released over the weekend by Chief Executive Klaus Kleinfeld, who told Der Spiegel magazine that the company would end its operations in some countries on moral and political grounds...Siemens elaborated Monday, saying that the company would complete activities for existing orders and service contracts by June 30 at the latest and would accept no new orders there because of concerns about humanitarian conditions...Siemens said its decision to pull out of Sudan does not exclude possible involvement in humanitarian activities organized by internationally recognized organizations.