Gration heading to Chad, Sudan for more talks
January 12, 2010 (WASHINGTON) – US Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration will travel to Chad and Sudan on Saturday, said Philip J. Crowley, US Assistant Secretary of State, in a daily press briefing today. The envoy apparently intended to travel last week but may have been grounded due to the record snow storms that hit the Washington, D.C. area.
Gration will visit N’Djamena, Juba, Kadugli and Khartoum, according to the State Department. “Key objectives are to complete implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and election preparations,” said the spokesman’s office. The trip will last until February 22.
His stop in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, comes soon after the Chadian president returned from Khartoum having won praise from the US and France for agreeing to end hostilities with the Sudanese president. The move raised hopes for the Doha talks, which some of the once Chad-based Darfur rebels are reluctant to join.
The focus of the visit will be on the relations between the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) and National Congress Party (NCP). One of Gration’s advisors, the US-based Omer Qamar al-Din, known as Omer Ismail, told the daily Al-Sahafah that Gration will conduct separate consultations with each party to bridge differences between the two on outstanding issues related to implementation the 2005 peace deal.
The visit marks a continuation of the US envoy’s efforts to spearhead trilateral talks among the US, SPLM and NCP. Omer Ismail said that the talks would focus especially on elections, Abyei, the demarcation of the borders, the Darfur problem and Sudanese-American relations.
State Department’s official “Twitter” news feed initially announced that Special Envoy Gration would meet with President Omer Al Bashir, but then rescinded the post and said he would just be meeting with Salva Kiir Mayardit, the first-ranking vice president and SPLM chairman.
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Gration heading to Chad, Sudan for more talks
The American U.S stray specail envoy ought to be jailed and the key of his jail to be thrown a way . For a long time he had been misleading the U.S policy makers about the ongoing situation in Sudan, while cooking his plans with Khartoum on how to dismantle the SLM/AW that stand on his way to elusive peace , as a result the Government is continuing the attacks on the IDPs and civilians targets. I ask Gration what logical explanation he has to the attacks on the IDPs,and is it this kind of peace he is working to bring to the people of Darfur? Heaven forbid, the people of Darfur will prefer to die all, than to accept Gration’s ” Genocide sugarcoated with elusive peace”.