Sudan reiterates its rejection of rebel demand for humanitarian truce
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June 23, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The ruling National Congress Party renewed
on Sunday its rejection of a proposition made by the rebel Sudan
People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) for a humanitarian
cessation of hostilities to carry out a vaccination campaign.
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Girls sit in front of their shelter in Bram village in the Nuba
Mountains in South Kordofan April 28, 2012. (photo Goran Tomasevic
Reuters)
SPLM-N secretary general Yasir Arman, who leads its negotiating team,
demanded again on Sunday to hold talks with the Sudanese government on
how to organise a Polio vaccination campaign targeting 150.000
children under five years old in rebel held areas in South Kordofan
and Blue Nile.
Arman proposed a temporary humanitarian cessation of hostilities and
to bring the vaccine and the material needed to carry out this
operation directly from regional countries, Ethiopia and Kenya. The
rebel group also requests that SPLM- humanitarian personnel should be
involved instead of Sudanese staff.
He said taht the families in the rebel controlled areas do not trust a
vaccine brought from Khartoum which attempts to kill their children
through the continued bombing .
Qubeis Ahmed Mustafa NCP deputy spokesperson reiterated Sunday evening
the position of his government rejecting to hold humanitarian talks
separately from the political file.
"This is totally unacceptable", Mustafa said, adding the SPLM-N had
previously made this proposition and the Sudanese government
delegation already declined it demanding to negotiate a political
agreement before the humanitarian issue.
He said that the rebel SPLM-N which kill children in North Kordofan’s
Um Rawaba and Abu Kershola is the "farthest" from contributing to the
vaccination campaign.
He further pointed out that the SPLM-N statements are "unclear" and
express that the rebels "have lost grounds and need for a truce with
the government but this will not happen and it is unacceptable"
The deputy spokesperson said they are resolved to not repeat the
Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) in the rebel areas.
The operation was established in April 1989, months before Bashir coup
d’état, as a result of an agreement signed by the government, UN aid
agencies and SPLM rebels to reach civilians regardless of their
location or political affiliation in South Sudan.
Sudan said the aid agencies instead of reaching civilians in the
devastated famine areas delivered food to the SPLA fighters.
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