Darfur rebel movements launch peace plea
October 10 2007 (CAIRO) — Two major rebel movements of the western Sudanese region of Darfur have inked a peace plea in Cairo ahead of an upcoming meeting in Libya on Darfur issue, Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported Wednesday.
Representatives of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) signed the plea for peace at the end of their talks on Tuesday, spokesman for JEM Ahmed Hussein was quoted as saying.
The plea urged all conflicting parties in Darfur to work for reaching tangible results at the talks scheduled for Oct. 27 in Libya, said Hussein, who is on a visit here for talks with the Sudanese opposition officials living in Egypt.
The peace plea also called on regional and international sides to exert utmost efforts to realize a just peace in Darfur, underlining the importance of reaching a just and comprehensive peace in the region.
During the meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit on Monday, the Sudanese groups reiterated their commitment to attend the talks in Libya and voiced their desire to reach a peaceful settlement with the Sudanese government.
The negotiations in Libya is meant to find answers to issues which were not resolved by the Abuja deal on Darfur peace, signed between the Sudanese government and the main faction of the SLM in the Nigerian capital of Abuja on May 5, 2006.
(Xinhua)