The Ministry of Communications & Information Technology announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ukrainian Space Agency   for the mutual corporation in the fields of  building  earth stations , the   manufacture and launch    of satellites into  the geostationary and non- geostationary orbits for the provision of telecommunication and remote sensing  services; ,in addition to corporation in the  development  of  human  resources .  .
Eng. Mustafa Abdelhafiz, Director of the Technical Department at NTC, mentioned  in a statement to (smc) that  the subject memorandum was signed during a recent  visit of Dr. Yahia Abdallah, Sudan Minister of Communications & Information Technology, to the Ukraine, proclaiming that  an agreement with the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs' Envoy, Mr. Yevhen Mykytenko,  the Special Representative  of  Ukraine for the Middle East and Africa, was signed  to activate the  work of the  Joint Committee a of  the two countries to enhance the cooperation between the Sudan and Ukraine; stating that the Sudanese Minister and his  escorting delegation visited the Arsenal Factory for Satellites and Radio Stations in the Ukraine.
It  worth mentioning , that during his visit to the Ukraine, the Minister of Communications and Information Technology was accompanied by Eng. Mubarak Mohammed Ahmed, General Manager of the National Information Centre (NIC), and Eng. Mustafa Abdelhafiz, Director of the Technical Department at NTC.