SPLM-N leader calls to consider opposition role for comprehensive peace in Sudan
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January 5, 2015 (KAHRTOUM) - The leader of the Sudan People’s
Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) Monday called on the African Union
mediation to consider the role of the Sudanese opposition forces in
order to achieve a comprehensive peace in the Sudan.
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Malik Agar, chair of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (Reuters)
In a New Year’s message, Malik Agar reiterated the SPLM-N’s commitment
to achieve a comprehensive peace in Sudan and congratulated the
group’s negotiating team for resisting internal and external pressures
saying “they will not commit SPLM into bad peace”.
Also, Agar said the coalition of rebel groups Sudanese Revolutionary
Front (SRF), he chairs, worked hard to create the conducive
environment for this comprehensive settlement pointing to the various
deals and declarations signed with the opposition forces including
Paris Declaration and Sudan Call.
The SPLM-N leader further praised the efforts of the African Union
High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) for peace in Sudan, “even if
progress has been below expectations”.
“Nevertheless, we reiterate that when the contributions of opposition
parties (…) are ignored this will pave the way to thwart these efforts
and prevent it from achieving its purpose which is the comprehensive
peace,” he said.
Delegations from the Sudanese government and SPLM-N are expected to
resume peace talks within the upcoming weeks in Addis Ababa.
The discussions on a framework agreement for the peace negotiations
are stalled over ways to link between the process on the Blue Nile and
South Kordofan with the national dialogue process.
Also, Darfur track of the bicameral process seems threatened with
collapse as the government Sunday integrated the Doha Document for
Peace in Darfur in the constitution, rejecting definitively rebels
demand to open it for discussions.
Agar in his 13 page letter further has set four conditions saying a
viable peace process should meet.
First the talks should take in account participativeness,
inclusiveness and avoid partial solutions. Secondly, the process must
begins with a cessation of hostilities agreement in Darfur and the Two
Areas, followed by a humanitarian access to the civilians in the rebel
held areas. Thirdly, the discussions should address the root causes of
the conflict. Finally the security arrangements should end the war
definitively.
The rebel leader more than once repeated that the NCP is not willing
to achieve peace but seeks only to impose its hegemony and to
establish an Islamic state in Sudan.
He also defended a call for self-rule for the Two Areas by the SPLM-N
secretary general Yasir Arman saying that during the interim period
from 2005 to 2011 and in line with the 2005 peace agreement South
Kordofan and Blue Nile had a special administrative status.
“Self-governance is not a synonym for secession as some like to
spread. This is a pure propaganda. Our position is to demand
self-governance within a united Sudan” Agar said the former governor
of Blue Nile state, adding “the issue is feasible”.
(ST)
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