Sudanese ruling party welcomes Machar’s visit to Khartoum
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June 16, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - South Sudanese vice-president Riek Machar
is expected to arrive in Khartoum on Tuesday as the ruling National
Congress Party (NCP) welcomed the South Sudanese intitaive.
Official sources in the Sudanese capital told Sudan Tribune that
Machar would probably arrive Tuesday in Khartoum for meetings with the
first vice-president Ali Osman Taha and a number of Sudanese
government officials.
Government officials in Juba did not give the date of the visit
stressing that preparations are taking place to organise the visit,
but suggested that he may travel in the middle of next week.
The south Sudanese cabinet decided in its weekly meeting of Friday to
hold high level dialogue with the Sudanese government in order to
defuse the tensions between the two sides within the framework of the
signed agreement.
Machar was tasked to lead this delegations and to travel to Khartoum
to meet Sudanese frist vice-president Taha as the two are supposed to
chair a joint committee to discuss the implementation of the
cooperation agreements.
NCP media secretary Yasir Youssef, for his part, stated on Sunday that
the Sudan’s ruling party welcomes Machar’s visit to Khartoum for talks
on the support for rebel groups.
Speaking following a regular meeting of the NCP political sector
committee, Youssef said that Juba support to the rebel groups is the
main difference between the two countries.
"Any mechanism conducive to stop this support is welcome, whether it
comes through visits, dialogue or proposals, provided that it leads to
stop this support," he further said.
Yasir also said his party welcomes the proposals made by the head of
the African Union mediation Thabo Mbeki aiming to investigate
accusations of support to rebel groups the two parties trade.
On Sunday, Khartoum also confirmed reports that the south Sudanese oil
continue to flow normally expressing hopes that this would push Juba
government to deal seriously this time with its support too rebel
groups.
Sudanese officials who believe that some circles in Juba continue to
support Sudanese rebel groups expressed hopes different times that the
Kiir take the necessary measures to fix this issue.
(ST)
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