President of Sudan Ibrahim Abboud personally participated in the 1961 Non-Aligned Conference in Belgrade.

[2] The Yugoslav side was interested in further development of relations with Sudan as one of the Non-Aligned newly independent states in Africa.

Yugoslavia therefore provided especially important service in supplying parts and maintaining Sudan's aging Soviet built military equipment.

[2] The country also provided radio-transmitting facilities and secondhand naval patrol craft for the use in the Red Sea.

[1] An important aspect of the Yugoslav support was focused on the navy where it provided basic assistance in the establishment of the Sudanese Navy and for over a decade provided all of its vessels and the bulk of officer and technical training.