SPLM’s Amum to brief UN on Sudan peace implementation
June 11, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Secretary General Pagan Amum arrived today to New York to brief the UN Security Council members on the implementation of the peace accords signed in 2005 ahead of a referendum on self determination next year.
“The visit to New York (aims) to brief the Council members about the “status of the CPA and the referendum for the independence of the South Sudan in January 9th 2011” said the heads the southern Sudan liaison office in Washington Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth who is part of the SPLM delegation.
Amum, who arrived from Nairobi, attended a meeting held in the Kenyan capital on Wednesday 9 June between the First Vice-President and head of southern Sudan government Salva Kiir Mayadrit and the US Vice-President Joe Biden to discuss the American support for a possible independence of the semi-autonomous region.
Biden expressed USA readiness to support the two Sudanese parties to reach friendly consensuses over post referendum arrangements and have bases for the relations between the southern and the Northern Sudan particularly in the event south vote for secession.
The international community fears a possible border war between northern and southern Sudan and also consternated by the issues of insecurity and tribal violence in the south.
Earlier this month President Omer Al-Bashir disclosed that the difference over the border delimitation may lead to war between the north and the south stressing that unity remains the best option for the interests of the two parties.
“Parts of the border could be explosive… like in the case of Ethiopia and Eritrea, or even India and Pakistan,” Bashir said during a meeting of his ruling National Congress party (NCP) on June 6.
The Vice-President of southern Sudan government Riek Machar spoke this week about possible conduct of referendum without border demarcation. He however said optimistic that the parties would reach before the referendum an agreement on the remaining undemarcated border, which constitutes some of the oil fields and agricultural lands in the South.
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Kur
SPLM’s Amum to brief UN on Sudan peace implementation
We cannot be intimidated by return to war over the border to accept that ugly unity. War serves no interest. Those who wants to initiate it to frighten us are mistaken. We will not leave an inch of our land to anybody whether it leads to war or not.
Kur
DASODIKO
SPLM’s Amum to brief UN on Sudan peace implementation
Please SG. Amum tell them that people of South Sudan are also fedup living with Arabs. As the uncle of President Bashir, Al Taib Mustafa wrote that Peaple of South Sudan are different from the people of the North Sudan on the following: They are not Muslims, are black and speaking different languages that are not Arabic the language of GOD. So what else they can say on the people of South Sudan who gave the arid north everything?
Thondet Manyang
SPLM’s Amum to brief UN on Sudan peace implementation
Pagan keep it up!!!!
We have reach the point of no return that means we strongly need total independent of our country Southern Sudan( New Sudan). Youth of today are focusing on that jointly if we fell whom do we thinks will take arms again for freedom? It is we. Lets coperate and achieve one goal.
God bless Southern Sudan. Aamen