Sudan is close to a deal with the United States to compensate the victims of 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, Foreign Minister Asmaa Abdallah said on Tuesday. "The final touches of a settlement with victims of embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam are being finalised," Abdallah told AFP in an interview. "We now have a delegation in Washington negotiating with the victims' lawyers and officials at the US Department of State," she said. The US Supreme Court in February appeared open to reinstating $4.3 billion in punitive damages against Sudan in lawsuits accusing the now ousted regime of longtime strongman Omar al-Bashir of complicity in the bombings that killed 224 people. After reaching a deal, Sudan "will have fulfilled all the requirements" to be removed from the US blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism, Abdullah said. ab/mz/kir