US Special Envoy heads to Sudan and Ethiopia for talks
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
April 2, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) – The newly appointed US Special Envoy for
Sudan, Ambassador Princeton Lyman, is expected to travel to Ethiopia
on Saturday, for meetings between the ruling parties of North and
South Sudan on the pending issues ahead of South Sudan’s transition to
independence in July the US Department of State has said.
The trip comes shortly after the United States on Thursday announced
the appointment of Ambassador Lyman as the new special envoy to Sudan,
replacing Scott Gration.
Accepting the position, Lyman underlined that were 100 days to
negotiate the tough issues that need to be resolved July 9, when the
South is due to become fully independent.
He said that the Obama administration has worked hard to keep Sudan
from falling back into north-south civil war. Two million died in the
last North-South conflict, which lasted from 1983 until 2005.
In Ethiopia, Ambassador Lyman will participate in discussions between
the parties to the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA)
facilitated by the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on
security arrangements for the post-CPA period.
He will then travel to Khartoum, for meetings with senior Sudanese
officials on both North-South issues and Darfur, where a separate
conflict has been ongoing since 2003. After his visit to Sudan, Lyman
will return to Ethiopia for discussions on future economic
arrangements between Sudan’s North and South.
Ambassador Lyman agreed that the Abyei issue will be one of the tough
issues to resolve, and promised to work with the African Union, the
British, the Norwegians, and many others, to help the parties reach
that agreement.
Speaking to reporters on March 31, the former envoy to both South
Africa and Nigeria, expressed concerns on the disputed oil-rich region
of Abyei which is still waiting for referendum on whether it wants to
remain with the North or break away along with South.
He stressed a need to end the conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur.
’We’re also deeply concerned...about Darfur, about the continuing
problems of violence there, the many, many, almost 2 million people
who have been displaced and who are still living in camps,’ he said.
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