Sudan foreign minister expects US envoy to bring new policy
May 2, 2009 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor expressed anticipation that US Special Envoy Scott Gration would arrive Tuesday with a new policy aimed at realizing peace in Darfur through cooperation with the Government of Sudan.
In an interview with state-run SUNA, the foreign minister endorsed potential US involvement to realize peace in Darfur in a similar capacity as it had played to achieve the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, a deal reached by close US engagement with Khartoum.
SUNA reported that Alor indicated that the US envoy “will come with new vision or road map with regard to the Sudanese-US relations, adding that these relations will take a new turn as the new US administration adopts new policy not only toward Sudan but also toward the whole world.”
The interview follows similar indications from Washington, where Senator John Kerry recently wrote after a visit to Khartoum that the Obama administration should attempt “broad and direct” engagement with the Sudan government.
Alor, who is a member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), was part of an SPLM delegation to the United States that arrived in late March. He also had visited the White House in January as part of the delegation of the Vice President of Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit.
He pointed out that the recent visits of Gration and Kerry were aimed at getting acquainted with the situation in Sudan and submitting recommendations to the US administration.
According to a US official in Washington, the administration’s review of its Sudan policy is still ongoing but is expected to conclude in the near future; input from the Special Envoy will be particularly significant, said the official.
SUNA also quoted the foreign minister as saying that the government will exert utmost efforts to pave the way for promoting relations with the European Union, “reaffirming the necessity for holding serious talks to make a break through in this connection.”
As officials from both the US and Sudan have given indications of an apparent or potential thaw in relations, the major Darfur insurgencies have continued to refuse to attend Qatari-mediated peace negotiations with the Government of Sudan. Last Sunday a court in Khartoum issued death sentences against 11 Darfuri men for alleged involvement in a rebel attack on the capital in May 2008.
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Sudan foreign minister expects US envoy to bring new policy
MY dear brother southern sudanese.i know you can do a lots of good think to our conutry with your very voluvol time you spaned tearing dwon one another.it is not that i think iam better then you’nour i thouht that i know more then you do.in fact i lerned so mach from you in very littel time.i totaly understaned the councern of ach and evry one of you.
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1-our tribe are not all porpact.there for we must do our homework farst befor we jup to attac our other respactive trib.
2-we must know that our enmey could be well bhained all this tribal conflict’cince they are going to be the banfcuir of any outcome.remember the enmey is too smart to acknower.some of them can even use our tribs name in oraer to meniupelit our discoution’so we can just spaned most of our time talking about tribalsim issue. inset of the real new sudan issue.
brthers and sisters,if you love your trib”then you should love all the other trib.because your trib alone can not be the south sudan what so ever
dear brothers.your leadership is wanted in south sudan now more then ever.
let us think and servce for coause of something greater then our self.
thanks may god bless you all,may god bless south sudan.(jmnda)