Sudan and LJM finalizing details of a peace deal in Darfur – top negotiator
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May 22, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — The government and the rebel Liberation and
Justice Movement (LJM) are finalizing the details of a peace agreement
as the parties have agreed on the major issues, said Sudan’s top
negotiator on Sunday.
Officials from the two parties made several statements these last days
about the imminence of a peace agreement between them while talks with
the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) are deadlocked over different
issues and their delegations ceased meetings.
State Minister Amin Hassan Omer, head of Sudan’s government delegation
to the peace talks with Darfur rebel groups stated Sunday in Khartoum
that the two parties are developing the necessary arrangements on
LJM’s political and military participation in the government in order
to complete the peace agreement.
Amin further said they expect the mediation would present a draft
peace agreement at the Darfur stakeholders conference, or through the
African Union Panel on Sudan led by Thabo Mbeki or the state of Qatar,
the official SUNA reported.
After his return from Qatar on Saturday, Presidential adviser Ghazi
Salah Al-Deen told reporters that the mediation agreed to present the
final draft agreement to the conference on 27 May. But the rebel
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) said he visited Doha to put
pressure on the mediation to prepare a final peace deal with LJM.
Sudanese government and JEM stopped talks because the rebels demand to
bring a delegation from Darfur, and to open new discussions on
different chapters based on the position papers they filed to the
mediation and not on the draft agreement discussed with LJM.
The top negotiator further said that JEM and the other rebel movements
will get opportunities to join the political process. He said that
they stressed during a meeting held with the visiting UN Security
Council on Sudan’s keenness to achieve peace in Darfur.
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