 Since 2008, the Embassy has a consular section, while the Ministry of Commerce and Interior are in Cairo.The then Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs, Bernardino León, and International Cooperation, Leire Pajin, visited Sudan on January 29, 30 and 31, 2007.Both Secretaries of State met in Khartoum with the Sudanese ministers for International Cooperation and Affairs Foreign, as well as with the second vice president of the Republic, who asked for "significant steps" towards the full pacification of the country.