Sudan rules out talks with rebel groups over Doha document
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May 28, 2011 (DOHA) — Sudan will not open a peace deal that might be
signed in Doha to future negotiations with rebel groups which refuse
to sign it or are not part of the current process, said presidential
adviser Nafie Ali Nafie.
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JCM Djibril Bassolé and Qatari state minister Ahmed bin Abdullah
Al-Mahmoud meet with IDPs and civil society delegates on Saturday 28
May 2011 (photo Olivier Chassot UNAMID)
Sudanese government and the Liberation and Equality Movement (LJM)
said they agree on 95 percent of the issues negotiated in Doha. Rumors
and speculation is circulating in Khartoum that the signing of a peace
agreement is imminent between the two parties.
However, the Joint Chief Mediator, Djibril Bassolé, said the
conclusions of Darfur stakeholders conference should only constitute a
"consensual base" for future negotiations including JEM and Sudan
Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid Al-Nur.
The government, after the signing of Darfur Peace Agreement in May
2006, responded positively to the international solicitations and
accepted to open talks again with the rebel groups who refused to sign
but "we will not transform Abuja into a tradition", Nafie told
reporters in Doha.
The presidential assistant further said that the government will
endorse the peace document even if no rebel group sign it. He however
said the government will seek to convince the rebel to adhere to this
agreement.
Regarding the groups that did not take part in the negotiations, Nafie
stressed the Doha document deals with all the aspects of the conflict
and there are no new developments deserving to hold new talks.
The works of conference faced Saturday some delay because the
representatives of displaced persons and refugees boycotted the
meetings demanding to release two delegates who are arrested and five
others prevented by the security services in Darfur from travelling to
Doha.
The Qatari state minister for foreign affairs Ahmed bin Abdullah
Al-Mahmoud persuaded them to resume their participation in the
discussions and pledged to bring those who remained in Sudan to Doha
on Sunday.
Al-Mahmoud raised the issue of those arrested and barred from
travelling to Doha with the presidential assistant Nafie Ali Nafie as
the delegates said they are very concerned about the fate of those
they left behind.
However Hussein Abu Sharati the spokesperson of the IDPs and refugees
Association in Darfur told Sudan Tribune that those who are chosen by
the the joint African Union / United Nations Mission in Darfur
(UNAMID) to attend the Doha conference do not represent the people
affected by the eight year conflict.
"We are not concerned by the outcome of this conference and the IDPs
delegates represent only themselves," Abu Sharati added.
(ST)
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