Advocacy group slams US proposal to rescue Sudan’s CPA

November 14, 2007 (WASHINGTON) — An advocacy group today denounced the plan proposed by the US Administration to end the stalemate in the implementation of the Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) urging its full implementation.

The group known as ‘Enough’, established with a goal to end genocide and crime against humanity, criticized the new US proposals submitted to the south Sudanese relating specifically to the oil rich region of Abyei, border demarcation and troops redeployments.

The publication of this report comes hours before the meeting of the US President George W. Bush with the southern Sudan leader, Salva Kiir. The two leaders are expected to discuss mainly the ill implementation of the US brokered peace deal between the North and South.

The U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, last week proposed a set of “confidence-building measures” to Salva Kiir, who is also the First Vice President of the republic. The measures suggested that China, Saudi Arabia and the United States mediate between the NCP and SPLM to formulate a “package deal” to solve the impasse around Abyei and north-south border demarcation.

The authors of the report, Roger Winter, former US Special Representative for Sudan and John Prendergast, former Director of African Affairs at the National Security Council, said these proposed measures “effectively abandoned full compliance with the CPA as the roadmap to peace.”

Winter and Prendergast said that this new proposal “risks weakening the CPA further rather than strengthening it.” Further they requested the US President to clearly indicate that “the way forward for Southern Sudan is the full implementation of the CPA.”

The authors of ” An All-Sudan Solution: Linking Darfur and the South”, urged Darfur activists to support the CPA implementation because it “provides a framework for a national solution.”

“The end to both crises rests in the same solution: the democratic transformation of the country, driven by strong internationally monitored peace agreements for the South, Darfur, and the East that are built on shared power, shared resources, and comprehensive political change.” the report said.

The report called for a large coalition between the southern Sudan supporters and Darfur campaigners who have succeeded to convince the US Administration to declare unilaterally “genocide” war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Khartoum army and allied militia in the war-torn region of Darfur.

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Read the report at: http://www.enoughproject.org/reports/allsudan_20071114.php