Senior officials from Europe and the US have said that international financial support for Sudan, including debt relief, can only follow the establishment of a credible civilian government.
Diplomats from France, Germany, Norway, the UK, the US and the European Union - who have been visiting Khartoum - criticised the rehabilitation of members of Sudan's former authoritarian regime by the current military government.
They warned that without progress in an agreed transition towards democracy, Sudan might lose billions of dollars in assistance from the World Bank, and that its IMF programme was also at risk.