Uganda does not regret supporting SPLA during Sudan war, minister says
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May 11, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Ugandan government has admitted for the
first time that it fully supported South Sudan’s army, SPLA, during
the years of north-south civil wars in the former united Sudan.
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Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni
"We supported the SPLA activities as government of Uganda and we don’t
regret since our efforts were not put to waste because south Sudan is
now an independent state from Sudan” Uganda’s state minister of
Foreign Affairs, Okello Oryem, said, as reported by the Kampala-based
newspaper Red Pepper on Wednesday.
Then guerrilla army SPLA fought for more than two decades against
northern governments in Khartoum until the war ended in 2005 with the
signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which paved the way
for South Sudan’s independence in July last year.
The Ugandan minister said that his country was “proud” of its
contribution to the creation of a South Sudanese state.
Khartoum has long accused Uganda of supporting SPLA, a charge Kampala
was hitherto unwilling to confess to.
Similarly, Kampala recently renewed its long-standing accusations that
Khartoum was supporting the notorious Ugandan rebel Lord Resistance
Army (LRA).
However, Oryem said that the current dispute between Sudan and South
Sudan over oil-producing region of Heglig should be resolved through
negotiations.
Rankling between Khartoum and Kampala has recently flared up due to
the conflict between Sudan and South Sudan around disputed border
regions.
Last month, the Sudanese ministry of foreign affairs summoned the
Ugandan ambassador in Khartoum against the background of statements in
which the chief of the Ugandan army, Aronda Nyakairima, warned that
they will intervene militarily if fighting around Heglig develops into
a full-fledged war.
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